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Thursday, April 19th 2007

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I just read this and am still in shock at the stupidity and ignorance of these people….

Westboro Baptist Church, (not affiliated with any national Baptist organization) the anti-Gay protesting group that call themselves a church from Topeka, Kansas is planning on picketing the funerals of the VA Tech victims. This group is known for picketing our fallen soldiers funerals, and now are reaching an even more disgusting low.

Their reason they stated was that shooter Cho Seung-hui was carrying out God’s wishes by punishing the victims who weren’t Christian. Excuse me??

“The evidence is they were not Christian. God does not do that to his servants,” WBC member Shirley Phelps-Roper

I’d like to know what God they are serving? It’s not the same one I know! This group is beyond disgusting, they are vile. All that they do is spill hate and they do it when people are vulnerable and hurting. Have they ever heard that God is love. A pastor friend of mine mentioned that he wished he was in Virginia instead of Hawaii where he lives, because he’d organize as many churches to gather at all the funerals to buffer those protesters out with songs of praise. I have to believe that good will conquer over evil and these hateful people will not prevail.

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Monday, September 11th 2006

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2,996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11.

On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggers will join together for a tribute to the victims of 9/11. Each person will pay tribute to a single victim.

We will honor them by remembering their lives, and not by remembering their murderers.

I am remembering Jane Beatty.

Jane S. Beatty was a survivor. When her first marriage broke up, she was thrust into the job market for the first time and found work as a cocktail waitress in Toronto, where she was raised. Then she learned computer skills and switched careers, eventually becoming a technical supervisor at Marsh & McLennan in New York.

Ms. Beatty, 53, faced another challenge more recently when she was found to have breast cancer. By that time, she had left Canada and moved to Belford, N.J., to marry the retired police officer she had met on a blind date while visiting a friend. The friend, Lorraine Greskow, said Ms. Beatty remained upbeat, even after her mastectomy. “She always had a smile on her face, even through all that,” she said.

In August, Jane Beatty and her husband, Bob, went to Atlantic City to privately mark her fifth anniversary of being cancer-free. She told her mother it was too early to make a big fuss. “She said she wasn’t going to celebrate until she was clear for six years,” said her mother, Beth Chrystal.