About that 'Church' that does horrible protests...

I'm sure you have heard of this group of people that gather outside of military funerals or churches or events holding signs saying things like, "God hates America" or "Thank God for 9/11". These clowns make national headlines for their outrageous protests and 'rallies', showing their offensive signs just outside sensitive or tragic events. Just recently, these morons picketed the Arizona shooting funerals. I think it can also be said that these people are universally despised for the hate they show. This so-called 'church' is nothing but a hate group in religious disguise.

What is worse is that for some reason, US courts have defended these dolts as a defense of free speech. This is the worst part of it all. Yes, our country is based on the right of free speech and assembly, but that freedom is meant to keep things in check, keep people from being oppressed and keep society moving forward. I can think of no reason to protect this hate speech. It serves no purpose other than to create conflict amongst people. Sure, these 'church'-goers may have strong beliefs about what they feel is right or wrong, but why is it necessary that they be allowed to share that hate in the public realm? It serves no purpose other than to keep to the false belief that all speech is equal and therefore free.

As a functioning society, rights are justified by a function of the greater good. There is no good that comes from allowing these protesters to rally near these sensitive events. These people could go do their protest off by themselves somewhere and no one would care, chalking it up to crazies being crazy. But these fools want their message heard and do it by attending places where they would cause the most damage. It is unbelievable to me that their actions can be defended in the name of freedoms. The only way freedoms work is if there is a general societal respect that can keep them in play. If this respect is perverted, than the freedoms are eroded into a false liberty and actually become a detriment to the whole.

In order to reestablish what is right, I feel like there should be an ability to resist their obvious attempts to offend and hurt. It is just not right that a family attending a funeral has to hear slurs shouted at them because they have a differing mentality of life. Sure, everyone has a right to believe what they wish, but when you impose your beliefs on others and chastise them for not believing what you do, well, that's fascism and nobody likes a fascist. Unfortunately, fascists make for interesting TV stories, and the media can't help themselves when it comes to these incidents. Covering these offenses exhibits the horrible nature of these people, but at the same time brings attention to them and what they do. At this point, it becomes a national problem.

What boggles my mind the most about these cretins are their signs like "God hates America". If America is so bad and full of sin, then why are they still living in America? I'll tell you why: America is the only country that would even allow this type of mess to happen. It's what makes America great, but can also lead to problems when taken advantage of, which is exactly what these people are doing. They wouldn't dare take their church to another country (they are actually banned from the UK), because they just wouldn't put up with that shit.

So besides living in a country you hate, I think the saddest thing is the fact that the church members' kids are being brought up in these extreme ways without knowing better. I mean, when you teach your kid to sing "God hates Fags" and other fantastic ditties, you are irreversibly damaging any chance that kid has for a normal life. These people spend all their time hating and speaking of doom and apocalypse, completely missing out on all the good things in life. I wonder to myself, if these people are so obsessed with what God hates and what is wrong and when God is returning, why don't they hurry up and go talk to him already? Your life is nothing but hate and protests, so why not skip ahead to that big meeting in the sky? No one will miss you and America will be a bit happier and you can all hate from far away. People can counter-protest all they want and try to push back, but zealots like these are so set in their twisted ways that the only real solution is to give them exactly what they want: a personal hate session with their God.

MCP Daily Links

The new blog is now up! May Contain Peanuts has expanded to include a new site of daily links. These links are the ones I post daily on IM, but now there will be an archive to go back to.

There will be 3 links a day, updated each weekday. Here's the link:

http://mcpdailylinks.blogspot.com/

Happy 2011!