I don't see any evidence that he knows any less about this particular topic than you do.

I know exactly why you would be pissed off with them, and I would be the same way. I never claimed that this shouldn't anger you. However what I said wasn't sarcastic. They arent all grown adults who have had made a decision to believe what they believe. When they get their claws into their impressionable children and teach them their beliefs, they just mould more people like this.

Your county's laws protect these people and allow them to do what they do. It may be disgusting for them to picket and protest military funerals, or any funerals for that matter, but they are within their rights to do it and until that changes, it will continue to happen.

As much as I am disgusted by their beliefs and their practices, and the measures they take to try and enforce their beliefs on others (ie demonstrating at funerals) I simply don't think it is exactly the best solution to just exterminate them. You can call that a lack of "knowledge" if you want, but it's not like I actually believe these people kill children. I felt that was pretty obvious. But you would be killing theirs if this is actually how you propose to deal with beliefs different from your own, even if theirs are incredibly offensive.

OOoOOOooooO....testy. Come on Mojo has a point. I see what you're saying Mojo about them not knowing any better. If I were brought up that way perhaps I would have been the same. There is such a thing as brainwashing. As unjustifiable what they did, it's still not going to solve any problems by killing them.

i think the reason why they seems to be given preferential treatment can be summed up thus:-

When the Second World War/Came to an end
We forgave the Germans/And we were friends
Though they murdered six million/In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too/Have God on their side. (Bob Dylan)

It's because they fight for a Christian God, innit? I mean if they were Muslims protesting at a serviceman's funeral, they wouldn't be let off so easily, would they?

Instinctively, I think it's just an extension of the automatons/robots of the congregation at churches slurping all the pastor's words as if it were gospel and that the pastor is infallible.

Which is why I no rikey institutionalised religion, you diggee?

Er no... they're not getting preferential treatment, everyone hates them. The thing is that the leader of the clan and his daughter are both lawyers who are very good at knowing exactly what they can and can't get away with when it comes to free speech.

somebody better cement over those lacunas, then......

What if you only killed the adults? That'd probably be cool.

I know that a few members of the family have nothing to do with the WBC or its teachings.

just watched this on BBC iplayer - so according to the Westboro Baptist church Obama's the antichrist, they're going to move to Israel to live in a pink cave and then 140000 jews are gonna convert to christianity, after which Jesus will come back and we'll all go to hell....
:rofl:

That emoticon sums up in one emote what I think of the WBC.