I've always been a strong believer of the freedom of speech until I learned about the Westboro Baptist Church I guess I didn’t realize how far people would take their freedoms. Westboro Baptist Church (picture above) has an extreme view of freedom of speech these church people have been holding up these horrible signs at military funerals and upsetting their families. I don’t understand why they are attacking against the military so bad about gay people. One upset father commented on the fact that his son wasn’t even homosexual so he didn’t understand why they were protesting at his son’s funeral. Although on the other hand I am thankful to be able to express my opinion without repercussions. I feel that we should still have freedom of speech even though it can deeply hurt someone. It would be nice if freedom of speech could be limited. People need to learn how to respect one other and try to express your feelings in a way that doesn’t hurt other person especially in this case. I don’t think its right that these people can protest so close to these funerals they are not helping their case they are only hurting people and making people angry. We have enough negativity in the world. Let people grieve in peace! Below is a link to the Daily Show to see what John Stewart has to say on the matter:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-3-2011/tales-of-principled-behavior
As for John Galliano I think his comments ended up hurting himself more than anyone else. He ended up ruining his career and made a lot of people angry at him no one will want to work with him after this. Hopefully he has learned his lesson.
I don't know how people can do this, or we allow them to do this. What purpose does these protesters make, nobody's going to change how they believe, those signs are just hurting a war-torn family. I hope to see the funeral of one of these "church" members and see how they like it.
ReplyDeleteThis blog shows how divided we are as a country. Jacklyn is right: people take their freedoms too far. So what happens next? A tyrant steps in to set everyone in place. Do we want tyranny rather than self-control?
ReplyDeleteIt is weird that the West Baptist Fundamental Church supports an Old Testament Bible that has been translated numerous times with errors (three times removed from the original truth), and that these people were not present to witness the legitimacy or accuracy of the hateful events recorded in their Bible. At the same time they support the New Testament and claim to believe that God's love is greater than them or their enemy, that God loves them both, even if they do not love their enemy.
It's a good thing we have the separation of the Church & State! But the problem is still social. How do we persuade our peers to keep their behavior & speech under self-control so a tyrant doesn't step in and conquer us ALL?