Apparently PETA is not the only ones using this tragedy to promote their own agenda. I feel so sorry for the friends and family of Tim McLean who not only have to try and make some sense out of this horrific, cruel and incomprehensible death, but also have to listen to PETA try and draw some vague comparison to animal rights and religious fanatics claiming this is God's revenge on Canada for being tolerant of homosexuals. They should both be ashamed.
Members
of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church are threatening to picket
the funeral of Tim McLean, the young man decapitated on a Greyhound bus
last week.
The Kansas-based church -- a small fundamentalist sect
led by Fred Phelps -- is reviled in the United States for protesting
the funerals of hundreds of soldiers killed in the Iraq war. Seven
members of the church originally planned to picket theatre performances
in Toronto and Red Deer, Alta., later this week.
They recently
added Mr. McLean's Manitoba funeral to their itinerary and plan to
stand outside the service with signs reading, "God hates you," "the
wrath of God is revealed" and "God hates Canada." God is sending a
message through Mr. McLean's murder that He and the commandments must
be obeyed, Shirley Phelps-Roper said.
"The reason we're going is
it's dot-connecting time," Ms. Phelps-Roper said yesterday. "The Lord
is coming, America is doomed, the wrath of God abides upon the children
of disobedience. His wrath appears in the form of these God smacks that
are going on all around us."
The Westboro Baptist Church is a
tiny organization with only Mr. Phelps and relatives as members,
according to Mark Potok, director of the intelligence project of the
Southern Poverty Law Centre, a civil rights organization based in
Montgomery, Ala.
"This is just about as despicable a bunch of people as you can find," he said.