According to the New York Times (login required) a jury has awarded a father $11M in a lawsuit against a fundamentalist Kansas Baptist church.
A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.
Albert Snyder of York, Pa., sued the Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq.
When a church acts like this, is it any wonder that Christianity as a whole is perceived as antihomosexual, judgmental, out of touch, and insensitive (again referring to the book “unChristian”).
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