14 DAY TRIAL // The controversial Westboro Baptist Church has announced that it will picket the funerals of Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, this weekend, in what is deemed another hate-filled and unnecessary campaign.
The WBC is known for picketing funerals of American soldiers, for their signs reading “God hates fags” and “Thank God for September 11,” for saying God hates most of today’s celebrities and for many other, some of them unspeakable, things.
Now, they’re targeting the funerals of Elizabeth Edwards, who died just a couple of days ago after a 6-year battle with cancer, saying she must be burning in hell as we speak.
Movie critic Roger Ebert got a hold of the press statement from the WBC making the rounds, and he posted it on his blog, saying only that “This made me so angry, and so sad” as an introduction.
Seeing how Edwards is portrayed in the statement, Ebert is clearly not exaggerating at all.
“Elizabeth Edwards & her faithless husband, John, lightly esteemed what they had. They coveted things that were not theirs – and presumptuously thought they could control God,” the statement reads.
“When they were visited from the Most High God with the death of their 16-year-old son, they did not humble themselves before His mighty hand,” the WBC says. Wade, the son, died in 1996 in a car crash.
“They reared up in rage, decided they would show God who is boss, and meddled in matters of the womb, resulting in 2 more children – now motherless,” the memo further says.
Because of all this, Elizabeth is now in hell, where she’s undoubtedly paying for her sins, together with her son Wade, the Church goes on to say – but it doesn’t mention which Wade’s sins might have been.
“Elizabeth is now a resident of hell, where her rebellion and rage will take full flower. She rejoins her dead child who beat her there, and has seen the face of her grievous misconduct in neglecting her non-delegable duty to him,” the WBC memo says.