[Vision2020] Police to Protect Vandalized Home of Fallen Soldier

[Art Deco]

Tom, et al,

An article about some very creepy people posted by Tom Hansen ends with this:

"He said his civil rights organization has listed the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group for years. The minister who leads the group advocates making homosexuality a capital offense."

In the context of the article and its ending, let us not forget this:


>From Credenda/Agenda [Christ Church Cult Official Organ], by Gregory Dickison [Comments added]:

http://www.credenda.org/old/issues/vol3/magi3-9.htm

 

"The civil magistrate is the minister of God to execute wrath on the wrongdoer (Rom. 13:4). God has not left his civil minister without guidance on how to exercise his office. The Scriptures set forth clear standards of judgment for many offenses. Capital crimes, for example, include premeditated killing (murder), kidnapping, sorcery, bestiality, adultery, homosexuality, and cursing one's parents..."

"In contemporary American jurisprudence, none of these offenses is punishable by death, with the occasional exception of murder. The magistrates have dispensed with God's standards of justice. Some Christians believe this is an improvement. They would be horrified to think that the "harsh" penalties of the law should still be applied. Sometimes this is the result of the mistaken belief that the Old Testament has no further application after the advent of Christ. This is an exegetical problem. Too often, it is the result of a sinful view of the criminal. This sin is called pity."

"If your brother, the son of your mother, your son or your daughter, the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and serve other gods,". . . you shall not consent to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him or conceal him; but you shall surely kill him..." [Comment:  Heresy: Beware, ye not of the cult!]

"If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out the hand and seizes him by the genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity her..." 

God commands the judge to evaluate the crime rather than the criminal. If the crime is one for which God requires death, then death must be the punishment. Your eye shall not pity. Neither is the repentance of the accused relevant to the imposition of the sentence. 

"Thus, the Bible teaches that pity is not an option where God has decided the matter. The [civil] magistrate, God's minister, is to faithfully execute justice according to God's standard, not man's... This means that we must return to an obedience which confines pity within the bounds which God has established for us."

 

The above is a not-so-subtle reminder that not all creepy crackpots are from Topeka, Kansas.


Wayne A. Fox
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(208) 882-7975
waf at moscow.com




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 5:09 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Police to Protect Vandalized Home of Fallen Soldier


> >From today's (March 2, 2006) Early Bird edition of the Army Times -
> 
> It is believed that the perpetrators of the vandalism are members of the
> same church that conducted protests at funeral services of gay slain
> soldiers.
> 
> In my opinion this should be considered a hate crime and punishment imposed
> accordingly.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Police to protect vandalized home of fallen soldier
> 
> Associated Press
> 
> 
> KOKOMO, Ind. - Police posted an around-the-clock security watch at the home
> of an Indiana soldier killed last week in Iraq after it was vandalized and
> his family received disturbing phone calls.
> 
> The home of Sgt. Rickey Jones was egged Saturday, three days after Jones'
> family learned the 21-year-old and three other soldiers had been killed by a
> roadside bomb north of Baghdad. His family also received phone calls in
> which the caller said: "I'm glad your son is dead."
> 
> The actions drew the attention of their congressman, Rep. Steve Buyer, a
> Republican who also chairs the House Veterans' Affairs Committee.
> 
> "It is outrageous, appalling and indecent for an American citizen to commit
> crimes and perversions against a family grieving at the loss of their son,"
> Buyer said. 
> 
> On Thursday, he spoke on the House floor asking his fellow lawmakers to
> stand and observe a moment of silence "to condemn these despicable acts."
> 
> "A great virtue of the American character is our compassion. It is how we
> care for each other in good times and in difficult times," he said. "It is
> our compassion and human decency that represents the very best of our
> nation."
> 
> Jones' relatives and police are bracing for the possibility that a Topeka,
> Kan.-based group will protest at his funeral Monday.
> 
> Members of the Westboro Baptist Church have protested at military funerals
> across the nation, including shouting insults at soldiers' surviving
> relatives and holding signs that read "God Made IEDs" - a reference to
> roadside bombs.
> 
> The group claims American soldiers are dying in Iraq due to divine
> intervention because the United States harbors homosexuals.
> 
> The Westboro protesters, however, could face new restrictions at Jones'
> funeral if Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signs a bill this week that would make
> disorderly conduct at a funeral a felony and keep protesters at least 500
> feet from a gravesite.
> 
> That bill, which won final approval Tuesday from the Indiana House, would
> take effect immediately after being signed by Daniels. The governor's press
> secretary, Jane Jankowski, said Daniels would sign the bill as soon as it
> arrives on his desk.
> 
> "We're trying to get this family some closure, and not have to deal with
> these stupid signs," state Rep. John Smith, R-Kokomo, said Tuesday.
> 
> State Sen. Brent Steele, who authored the legislation, said the bill doesn't
> go as far as some states' attempts to hold back protests by the Westboro
> group.
> 
> "I went as far as I thought I could and still have a constitutional bill,"
> said Steele, R-Bedford.
> 
> Mark Potok, a spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, said it's still
> an open question whether some of the new laws restricting picketing are
> entirely constitutional.
> 
> He said his civil rights organization has listed the Westboro Baptist Church
> as a hate group for years. The minister who leads the group advocates making
> homosexuality a capital offense.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
> 
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> 
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
> 
> - Unknown
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