Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord

God has punished America for tolerating homosexuals according to the Westboro Baptist church in Kansas.

They believe this so strongly that they picket the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, displaying placards with slogans like "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags".

They have been fined $11m by a federal court for this outrageously hurtful behaviour, but the smart money is on this being reversed by the Supreme Court under American First Amendment "freedom of speech" provisions.

One of their websites http://www.godhatesfags.com was not working at the time of typing - I do hope this is because someone's God put a thunderbolt through their web-server. Their main site http://www.godhatesamerica.com/ghfmir/main/index.html is in good health unfortunately.

Please don't click on it - you'll just encourage them.

As an example, they have this counter on the website that shows that :-

Matthew Shepard has been in hell for 3311 days.
Diane Whipple has been in hell for 2474 days.

Matthew Sheppard was the 21 year-old gay student who died in 1998 in Wyoming after being robbed, pistol whipped, tied to a fence in a remote, rural area, and left to die.

Diane Whipple was an openly lesbian Lacrosse coach who was mauled to death by her neighbour's attack-dogs.

Remember I said before that I loved the American Constitution ? I'm not sure I really can be a fan of anything that would prevent the father of the dead soldier from getting justice from these cretins.

I hate these hurtful, tactless, mental midgets with a will. According to Mrs. Stan, God hates nobody. To me, that's a really impressive feat. He doesn't hate gays, he doesn't hate America, and he doesn't even hate braindead thugs who cause harm in his name.