Is Westboro Baptist Church a hate group?

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by u crank

Careful what you say. Making broad and unfounded statements about any one group of people is the first step toward the same mistake these people make.

These people were all Baptists.

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Abraham Lincoln, Harry Truman, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to name a few.

I agree. Most religious people I know, Baptists included, are not all that different than non-religious people in their manner of expressing their opinions and beliefs. I know that probably disappoints any Baptist, they want to be different (in a good way). I would not say they are bad, they have their opinions like everyone else. And yeah, like you said, bashing Baptists or Christians is probably not a tolerant POV.

For me, when Pat Robertson makes some hateful remark, and it gets picked up by the news cycle, it's not in the same league as when the WBC makes an disruptive, innappropriate appearance in force at a funeral.