While the nation mourns the loss of life in Monday's horrific bombings in Boston, the Westboro Baptist Church is celebrating in its usual fashion, saying the explosions were sent by God as punishment for gay marriage.
“Thank God for the Boston marathon bombs,” the church said on Twitter, the Washington Times reported.
“BREAKING: Westboro Baptist Church to picket funerals of those dead by Boston Bombs! GOD SENT THE BOMBS IN FURY OVER F*G MARRIAGE!” the church added.
“The federal government is classifying the bombs as a terrorist attack, but say it’s unclear if it’s of a domestic or foreign nature. Here’s a hint — God sent the bombs! How many more terrifying ways will you have the Lord injure and kill your fellow countrymen because you insist on nation-dooming filthy f*g marriage,” said an announcement released by the organization.
The Huffington Post reported that the hacktivist group Anonymous promised to respond if protesters appeared at the funerals.
“If #WBC protests the Boston funerals, they will have to expect us,” Anonymous tweeted.
The Westboro Baptist Church is well known for its message of hate — a message that clearly does violence to the word of God, and misrepresents everything Jesus taught.
While Christians generally agree that God's message is one of love, the Westboro Baptist Church teaches the opposite, and spreads that teaching in very public ways.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life,” John 3:16 says. “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved,” the next verse says.
Westboro Baptist, however, says that God hates America and rejoices when sinners die.
The group has protested at the funerals of soldiers killed in combat and celebrated the murder of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, saying that God “executed perfect wrath” when Kyle was killed at a Texas rifle range.
A petition at the White House “We the People” website demands the group be kept out of Boston and away from the funerals.
Three people, including an eight-year-old boy, were killed in the bombings, and some 170 people were injured.
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