A Special Kind Of Idiot

I work in the county where two men just lost their lives in a mine explosion. It is true that anytime a coal miner dies the state mourns with the family. I'm not sure whether that's because we're a rural area, whether it's because mining creates a close knit community or whether it's because the industry is so prevalent in the state that almost everyone has someone in their family, or someone they're close to, who is involved in mining. However, WVians do feel the loss of those souls lost in mining disasters.

We felt it three weeks ago when the Sago mine exploded and we felt it last week when the 2 miners in Logan Co lost their lives. The tears that have been shed on our mountains and hollows were not born only from the grief of the families but from the hearts of West Virginians who feel the loss of our sons.

Which makes Fred Phelps even more of an abomination.
http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/jan2006/20060123_two-more-dead-miners.pdf

Phelps is the head of an inbred, mentally impaired, distorted Baptist church who celebrates the death of each miner in WV, along with the deaths of our military in Iraq, because he feels it's a message from God condemning the US for allow gays to live.

The putrid ass erected a monument to Matthew Sheppard, who was beaten to death by homophobic locals in his hometown, and chiseled Sheppard's date of death as the day Sheppard entered hell.

So Phelps will bring his message of hate - and let's be certain of this: it is not God's message he brings but his own homophobic drivvel - to Logan during the funeral of these miners, just as he did in Buckhannon a week ago at the memorial service for the Sago miners. Only this time the state police won't be affording him security.

Unfortunately the freedom of speech also applies to morons.