Is That "Anti-war Left" or "Anti-gay Right"? [1]
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton [2] on
Media Matters caught Sean Hannity [3] on Tuesday blaming the "anti-war left" for protesting at the funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq. In reality, the protesters were members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) in Topeka, Kansas, which claims that terrorism and other disasters are divine retribution against America for the "sin" of tolerating homosexuality. WBC members, who held signs saying "God blew up the troops" [4] and "Thank God for dead soldiers," also have a website called GodHatesAmerica.com [5], where the rhetoric of America's religious right sounds ominously like the rhetoric of Al Qaeda: "The American army is a fag army! ... WBC rejoices every time the Lord God in His vengeance kills or maims an American soldier with an Improvised Explosive Device."