Warning: If you're already in a bad mood or are on your way out on a hot date and don't want to go in a despondent bad mood, then don't read this post.
It's gonna piss you off.
I want to add this to the files of frivolous lawsuits, although I don't know the technical details of the lawsuit itself. Even so, this story is a totally demoralizing indication of what an embarrassment the American legal system has become.
The judge and the lawyers who brokered this deal should be disbarred and forced to attend the funeral of every American servicemember killed in action for the next 12 months. As for that organization that calls itself a church and holds anti-homosexual rallies outside of funeral services for American service members... words fail me. It's simply disgraceful.
To help out a grieving USMC father with legal costs incurred by these wackos that call themselves a church, click on the link above.
BLUNOZ
From September 2007 to September 2008, this blog started out as a journal of my family's adventures around Hawaii. Then from 2008 to 2011, we lived in the Northern Virginia (NoVA) suburbs of Washington, DC. From the spring of 2011 to 2013, we called the Pacific Northwest "home." In June 2013, we moved back to the DC suburbs again. I like finding cool things for us to do that get us out of the house, so I will continue to blog about our adventures around the DC area, as well as periodic musings about whatever else strikes me as funny or odd.
Note: These are my frank and honest opinions. Nobody is paying me to write anything in my blog.
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- My name is Kevin. I'm 40-something. I have a lovely wife (LW) and two great little boys, Eldest Son = ES and Younger Brother = YB (in older posts, I previously referred to him as Youngest Son or YS). I'm a submarine officer, and I've been in the Navy for 21+ years. I started this blog to document our family adventures around Hawaii for family and friends. After that we moved to DC and then to Bremerton, WA. We have since moved back to the DC suburbs and I continue blogging about my random observations of life.
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Where'd I get the name "blunoz" from?
On my first deployment as a junior officer on USS PROVIDENCE (SSN 719), I had the awesome experience of going north of the Arctic Circle. The Navy has many customs and traditions, and when you cross a significant invisible line in the ocean like the Arctic Circle or the Equator, you have to go through an initiation ceremony. When I returned from that first deployment, I got a new license plate on my car, but had to fit it into 6-letters, so I condensed blue nose into "blunoz."
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I'm glad you posted something about this; you've got more words to describe it than I would. I tried to explain it to my husband and the best I could come up with resembled garbled utterances of shock and disgust but I ended with an agape jaw and just pointed at the screen. He's in that state now. Unbelievable.
Melis - Yeah, my wife read it and said, "So what exactly is it this church group is protesting???" I did a quick google search and found this on a Christian Science Monitor article:
"The Westboro Baptists Church from Topeka, gained notoriety by demonstrating at military funerals across the country, claiming God is killing troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to punish the United States for tolerating homosexuality."
That's abhorrent. They were just in Hampton Roads a few weeks ago and were supposed to protest at a Marine's funeral in Chesapeake. They did protest outside the high school that my kids would attend since that school has an LGBTA group. Then they were supposed to protest at a synagogue but the counter-rally outnumbered the few protestors of the WBC. These idiots have been around for a long time...but gained notoriety for picketing Matthew Shepard's funeral and gained more infamy since then.
It's a completely contemptible act that this grieving father, or anyone, would have to pay this hate group. I guess we know partially how this groups remains funded to travel around the country spreading their messages of hate and intolerance.
Good post, but yeah...talked about pissed.
Ugh...that "church" infuriates me. The hubs came home the other day and told me about this...it's just sick. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR. Those people are filled with nothing but hate and I can't believe that that poor grieving father has to PAY them of all people... There really just aren't any words...
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