To be honest, Jones is not a “Phelps follower”, his church agrees with Phelps’ condemnation of homosexual behavior, endorsement, etc. but denies everything else about Westboro beliefs and actions. To say Jones is a “Phelps follower” is incorrect.
“...but denies everything else about Westboro beliefs and actions. To say Jones is a “Phelps follower” is incorrect.”
Did they retract the support for protesting funerals? The only thing I have found is from this thread on FR:
I take it the dove outreach center marched with the Westboro loons, although I gather they “disaproved” of some of their methods. I couldn’t find out what methods they actually disaprove of.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2699021/posts
What one of the leaders of Jones’ “Dove Outreach Center” has to say about the Westboro loons:
“Westboro Baptist is not anti-military or anti-USA. Rather the opposite, actually. Do some research. They go to funerals because the Bible says that a fallen soldier is a sign of God’s wrath and a reminder of the condition of this world, a fallen world, in sin. We all know that. None of us want to fight wars. We have to, and we honor the fallen for their sacrifice, but funerals are also a chance to repent and get our lives right with God before our own comes along.
The soldier who is already dead knows what’s coming, whether they are in heaven or hell. I think they would be glad for the extra reminder to loved ones that they still have time to make a choice and use the rest of their time given here for God rather than wasting it, in a spiritual sense.”
It’s hard to sort through all the crap when you google the dove outreach center and westboro baptist, maybe they retracted that crap.
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