It is almost impossible to comment on the Westboro Baptist Church in an "empathetically objective" way. This is a church whose URL is godhatesfags.com, and is best known for its anti-gay protests, as well as demonstrations against many other things. I guess it just thinks it is taking the Bible literally, but the result is a bunch of deeply prejudiced cowards who travel around the country widening divisions and creating hatred (either toward them or toward the gays, depending on the prior opinions of the unfortunate bystander to one of their protests). They think they are doing right by God, by obeying the word of the Bible to the last letter. However, if they were to actually read the Bible, they would realize that they are just selecting passages to believe while ignoring others. For example, love thy neighbor as thyself. It doesn't get any clearer than that. Good Christians are supposed to love and tolerate, not hate. We saw in that one article that there are various interpretations of the verses where God is supposedly "against" homosexuality. We have also seen, in articles across the three traditions, that there are many people calling for a re-interpretation of holy scripture that can function in the modern world. The Westboro Baptist Church would do well to go shove its picket signs somewhere it would hurt, because they are not promoting a true message of Christianity, and are using certain Bible verses to "support" their own personal hatred.
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