{"id":266,"date":"2009-05-13T11:15:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T11:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/windowsanddoors\/2009\/05\/westboro-cult-of-hate-how-shou.html"},"modified":"2009-05-13T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T11:15:39","slug":"westboro-cult-of-hate-how-shou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/windowsanddoors\/2009\/05\/westboro-cult-of-hate-how-shou.html","title":{"rendered":"Westboro Cult of Hate; How Should People Respond?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jta.org\/news\/article\/2009\/05\/12\/1005095\/militant-anti-gay-church-turns-its-sights-on-jews\">The Westboro Baptist Church<\/a> of Topeka Kansas, infamous for its grotesque protest marches at the funerals of fallen US service personel, usually under banners proclaiming &#8220;God Hates Fags&#8221;, is at it again.  This time the target is Jews.<br \/>\nCombining ancient and contemporary forms of anti-Semitism, they continue their traditional combination of hate-mongering and apocalyptic doom.  But with only 71 members, I really wonder if it even makes sense to pay them any attention at all.  What do you say?<br \/>\nShould groups like this be covered?  Are we better off ignoring them?  Is that something that decent people can afford to do?<br \/>\nWherein lies the proper balance between the necessary monitoring of hate-groups and turning such monitoring into a lucrative fear-mongering business of its own?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka Kansas, infamous for its grotesque protest marches at the funerals of fallen US service personel, usually under banners proclaiming &#8220;God Hates Fags&#8221;, is at it again. This time the target is Jews. 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