Military Funeral
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Military Funeral
Back in the day of the Newspaper, I would spend a Sunday morning reading over everything in that paper. Then I stopped taking it and once in a while caught the news.
A while ago I saw something on people protesting a military funeral.
Now that I’m writing my blog, I’m paying more attention to what is happening in the news. I came across an article in the Huff Post Politics August 4, 2012 on Congress Passing restrictions on military funeral protests.
Can No longer Protest Military Funeral
It wasn’t until I read this article that it was a church group doing the protesting. The bill “The Honoring America’s Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act of 2012,” Which states demonstrators will no longer be allowed to picket military funerals two hours before or after a service. The bill also requires protestors to be at least 300 feet away from grieving family members.
Why Protest Military Funeral
Until I read this article, I had no ideal as to why people wanted to protest a military funeral. The Huff Post said “Westboro Baptist Church’s disruptive and insensitive displays, which frequently suggest that U.S. soldiers have been killed as God’s vengeance for gay tolerance.”
Oh I see now, but seriously. In my opinion I don’t believe God is taking vengeance by killing our men and woman of the military. War has been around since the beginning of time. All I can say is I’m glad that these men and women want to protect my freedom, whether they are straight or gay.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, what you do behind your four walls is your business. It is for only one person to judge, and that person is God.
As a church it is our responsibility to tell the world of what the bible says, and how Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and if we believe in him we will not perish but have ever lasting life.
I understand that the church is wanting to make a statement. I feel they are just going about it the wrong way. They (meaning the church) need to step into the shoes of the family of the person slain.
The family is greiving the loss of a loved one, who they probably didn’t like the ideal of them enlisting in the first place. But they realized how important it was to their son or daughter to defend our country. So they let them go, praying that God would keep them out of harms way.
What I think people forget is there IS evil in the world. My question is, What if there were no people who would step up to the plate, and serve for our country. Yes that stirs up another question of drafting. But where would the US be if that happened? We as a church need to show everyone Gods love through us.
Protesting a Military Funeral is not the way to show that Love
Blessings,
Carla
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