I really don’t like giving the hate group that goes around protesting at funerals any more blog space than necessary, but I really don’t get this one. Funeral cars are going to have to dodge these protestors who plan to attend and disrupt the funeral of a minister shot earlier this week.
Reverend Fred Winters was gunned down in cold blood on Sunday morning during service at the First Baptist Church in Maryville. I know they go around protesting soldier funerals and whatnot, but I’m not sure of their logic behind protesting the funeral of a fellow minister. It’s even a Baptist minister, the same denomination from which this hate group claims to be from.
Protestors plan to picket tomorrow between 9:45 and 10:30 a.m. The actual funeral begins at 10 a.m. Hopefully, the Patriot Guard Riders will show up at this event like the hundreds of others to block their hate signs and messages from mourners arriving in funeral cars and Cadillac hearses.
There simply is no excuse for behavior like this at a funeral. I’m just glad that the group isn’t growing in size and people are not taking their message seriously.
March 13th, 2009 at 6:47 am
This is the first time I’ve heard of a protest that involved Cadillac hearses and other funeral cars. It’s really odd. I don’t like hate groups anyway (who does?!), so I’m wondering how the rally went.