Members of Westboro Baptist Church reportedly protested slain Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle’s memorial service in Arlington, Texas on Monday. The hate group first announced its intentions via a press release earlier this week.
“WBC to picket memorial for mass murderer AKA Navy SEALs sniper Chris Kyle at Cowboys Stadium,” a Westboro press release stated. “He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword.”
Soldiers die; God laughs,” the release added.
I’m glad people such as myself and the Westboro Baptist Church are willing to stand up and call Chris Kyle out as the coward he was.
— Michael Crook (@Michael_Crook) February 11, 2013
One attendee also told TheBlaze that he saw Westboro protesters prior to the memorial service. The following photos were posted by various Westboro-related Twitter accounts on Monday, apparently from outside Cowboys Stadium where Kyle’s service was held:
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james savik
Feb. 12, 2013 at 2:26pmOne of these days the WBC people are going to go to far and karma is going to land on them with both feet in the form of an angry mob.
Those maggots won’t be able to sue anybody when they are stone cold dead and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of maniacs.
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vaman
Feb. 12, 2013 at 1:48pmAccording to the picture, there were only four of them? Not much to worry about I would imagine. Let’s not forget, christian one and all though.
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Mrmacson
Feb. 12, 2013 at 12:37pmWhy does this small church group of mean and hateful people get so much publicity? Ignore them. The Bible says “You will know them by their fruits.” Their fruits are evil. God bless our brave soldiers and their families and God bless the USA.
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zoro51
Feb. 12, 2013 at 12:02pmthis MAN MADE CULT is far worse than MURDERING MUSLUMS… god will shed NO tear when all west borro church is throw into the lake of fire…
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TXmedic86
Feb. 12, 2013 at 10:54amWhy? thats all i ask. also this whole bible quote saying if you live by the sword you die by the sword has been used by many. I just think its funny that they pick and choose what they want to use from the bible. Jericho anybody?
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idontknow3
Feb. 12, 2013 at 10:53amJust remember this you guys of Westboro. First of all, BAPTIST, you are not!!! You cannot trace your Baptist lineage back to the shores of the Sea of Galilee. You were not started by a Church that can trace its’ lineage back to the Shores of Galilee. Secondly, the work of the church is to take the Gospel of Jesus (the) Christ to all the world. ( Matthew 28:18-20 ) It is not to bring about physical mayhem and harm to prevent sinners from doing sinful things. Sinners are to be saved – this is what will give sinners the spiritual tools that will allow them to cease doing sinful things. You guys are no different than the Islamists that go about stoning, beheading and raping, etc., to the violators of the Sharia law.
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YtownSports
Feb. 12, 2013 at 10:53amThese people aren’t Baptists. They’re not even Christian. They barely qualify as human. They are as dangerous…albeit with a much smaller circle of influence…as any terrorist. They preach hate in the name of their God.
They are short-sighted, egotistical hypocrites who bring shame to themselves with their actions. They, of course, never stop to think that without soldiers fighting for their rights, they wouldn’t be able to preach their version of hate. They’d be in prison or would have been executed.
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G-WHIZ
Feb. 12, 2013 at 10:39am…WPC-MEMBERS DIE…and GOD SAYS: “WHO? WHAA?”
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wouldubelieveit
Feb. 12, 2013 at 10:09amWestboro Baptist Church folks don’t you understand any thing. Your words are condemning you, When your words condemn that is what your are doing to yourself. Your condemning yourself. The God you say you serve is not MOCKED “WHAT EVER” LISTEN “WHAT EVER” a man sows he will reap. Sow foolish words reap foolish things. God said you would be judge by your words not your deeds. Sow hate you will reap hate, some 30 some 60 and then there is 100% return on your hate you have sow. That is not God’s will for hate to be your harvest. I understand there is evil in the world. Acting like a bully is going to get you finical body hurt. One of your bothers will pop your noses. You get your reward.
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betterpart
Feb. 12, 2013 at 5:22amWestboro is what happens when the scriptures are taken out of context, are twisted, grossly misunderstood, and used as a personal weapon against others. Westboros’ et al backwards exegesis will do them in evenually. That is their lot.
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betterpart
Feb. 12, 2013 at 5:14amAOL HUFFPOST and the lowly Westboro characters must be related as they both sing the same songs. Though they’re pro-homosexuality, beastiality, ands child rape, HP hates our servicemen and women with a vengeance and will often put Westboro in a favorable air at every opportunity whenever the issues arises.
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G-WHIZ
Feb. 12, 2013 at 10:41amHow manny thousands of gallons of FABREEZE do they spray the article with to remove the WBC-stench?
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OUTLAW_WEALTH
Feb. 12, 2013 at 2:58amThese folks ain’t Baptists, they’re CIA agents ,running a deception racket. God will deal with them eventually.
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Mnementh
Feb. 12, 2013 at 1:26amDid anyone notice the 400+ Patriot Guard Riders there at the service?? They were there to keep the WBC Loons AWAY from the family, friends, and other mourners. Looks like they did their job. God Bless the Patriot Guard!!!
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Hawk69
Feb. 12, 2013 at 12:57amThese fools are nuts. I dislike these pukes just as I do jihads.
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Panabas
Feb. 12, 2013 at 12:10amand yet Jesus said if you do not have a sword, sell your cloak to buy one. I too pray, and one of my sins is that I pray these folks will die before they find salvation.
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HMCHIEF
Feb. 12, 2013 at 12:01amI attended Chief Kyle’s memorial today. Trust me, these people were a nonissue. Not being from the area, my son and I got lost at the stadium. As so, saw much of the vincity of the stadium. We never saw or heard anything of them. Why o why are we making them an issue now? I just don’t understand!!!!!!!!
Chief (FMF) USN Ret.
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JesusluvsU
Feb. 11, 2013 at 11:53pmIt’s real simple! Jesus said “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Matt 22:37-39
Come on Christians, we’ve gotta love people unconditionally. Jesus came to the world to save it, not to condemn it. He loves you no matter who you are or what you’ve done. Jesus offers redemption for any individual who is willing to receive it. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. Believe it & say it! :) Jesus is Lord! He died on the cross and God raised Him up 3 days later. Forgive me Lord for my sins & from now on I’m going to follow you.
With Love,
KD
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The Big Mick
Feb. 11, 2013 at 11:25pmSendtheMeat 9:03.
There are few things funnier than a Phahg doing Theology, Sindit, but an Atheist attempting it is one of them.
It’s hard to decode what you really mean here, when you attempt to say:
“given your support for this group’s anti-gay message, weighed against these protests, do [you?] love and support these devout Christians like you? Or do you think the protests are being too pushy with their Christian Bible-based message of protest against gays? How much anti-gay Christianity is too much?”
but whatever your intent, what you are really DOING is creating a False Dilemma. Someone as smart as you seem to feel yourself to be surely must see that WBCs LOGIC tree is 1. God hates homosex. 2. America promotes homosex. 3. Therefore God hates America and PUNISHES America. 4. God PUNISHES America by the hand of Our Enemies killing Our Soldiers.
5. Therefore Our War Dead are evidence of God’s Punishment on our Promotion of Homosex.
And surely someone as smart as you seem to consider yourself can clearly see that to AGREE with and AFFIRM Proposition ONE is NOT to agree with or affirm ANY of the others. Nor does to Affirm Prop1 OBLIGATE one to Affirm any of the others. They can be 100% right about Prhomos, about God’s ‘Tude, about God’s Anger and about God’s JUDGEMENT on The Republic and STILL be 100% wrong about the METHOD!
cont.
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Exeter5
Feb. 11, 2013 at 10:42pmI’ll bet they will say that the Crusades were fought with the Devil’s Armys. Ask a Knights Templer what side he was on, Westboro or Chris Kyle’s.
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Nunyunuwi
Feb. 11, 2013 at 9:11pmwell, westboro is actually just another anti american group, in the form of a church. Its their front… like radical muslims,they hate others who don’t think their way… they are full of hate, and are lost souls in their own hearts, as they do not understand the Bible, nor the God they profess to follow, their actions speak much louder than their words. Their actions are those who follow darkness, they preach, teach, encourage, support hate towards others. Never was a Christ teaching. However Lucifer teaches hate, lies, and so forth..and they by their actions follow him a lot more in behavior than Jesus Christ. Sad really, these westboro’s they have such a low self esteem that they must drag others down to their level, they must attack others in order to make themselves feel better about their own lifes experiences. this is called ‘Bullying’ maybe some day they will grow up.
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utwfreedom1
Feb. 12, 2013 at 12:53amI like what you said! very well said!
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betterpart
Feb. 12, 2013 at 5:18amThose westboro characters are devils in disguise.
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sawgnr249
Feb. 11, 2013 at 8:52pmI wonder why they never protest at a gang members funeral? Oh yeah that’s right, they know they would be shot dead in a second.
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DoOrDie
Feb. 11, 2013 at 8:33pmHolding God hates America signs while living in America makes no sense. Throw these people onto the pile of insane cult members. Like the guy above state, hurry up and drink the poisoned KoolAid.
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thegreatcarnac
Feb. 11, 2013 at 8:21pmThese people are simply mad! Mad…. like in “crazy”.
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54smom
Feb. 11, 2013 at 8:02pmOur church has people like these protesting all the time. You just learn to ignore them. They have their rights (thanks to our constitution and people like Kyle).
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Greenwood
Feb. 11, 2013 at 9:06pmmaybe you should look for another church.
John 13:35 By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love among yourselves.
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katzkiner
Feb. 11, 2013 at 7:56pmThey should be hosed down with a couple 1 pound cans of pepper spray everywhere they go. It would shut them up and give them a little taste of hell.
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