Divisions and Precisions

Hatred

(Stolen from )

Anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps has announced intentions to erect a monument to Matthew Shepard the gay college student brutally murdered five years ago near Laramie.

But, the monument will be no memorial. Phelps says the monument would be 5 to 6 feet tall and made of marble or granite. It would bear a bronze plaque bearing the image of Shepard and have an inscription reading "MATTHEW SHEPARD, Entered Hell October 12, 1998, in Defiance of God's Warning: 'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination.' Leviticus 18:22."

And he's planning to put it in Matthew Shepard's hometown. When I saw the headline, I had a moment of hope that maybe Phelps had had a change of heart. Can someone please tell me, can anyone please explain to me how this sort of malicious, malevolent hatred can come from someone who claims to follow the teachings of a man who said the greatest commandment of all was to love?

This just makes me feel sick inside. I can't fathom a reason for anyone to be so hateful, except to get publicity. I mean, even if Phelps is so radically anti-gay, Matthew Shepard has been dead for five years. Leave his family alone and let him rest in peace, no matter where you think his soul is.