God Hates Fags Letter

Daria Hall
Campus Box 858
4200 54th Avenue South
St. Petersburg, FL 33711

November 30, 2007

God Hates Fags
Westboro Baptist Church
3701 SW 12th St
Topeka, KS 66604

To whom it may concern.


Greetings! My name is Daria Hall and I am a freshman at Eckerd College in Saint Petersburg, Florida. While completing an assignment for my writing class I stumbled across your website and was totally taken aback by some of your outlandish statements and beliefs. Your beliefs condemn and victimize a group of people based on one simple fact. They love or have feelings for members of the same sex.

While glancing through your website, I noticed that you believe that homosexuals are homosexuals because God hates them and that sodomites fuel the fires of God’s wrath. No disrespect, but I think that your views on homosexuality are very outrageous.

First homosexuals are homosexuals because God hates them. That is the same as saying Christians are Christians because God hates them or Americans are Americans because God hates them. This argument makes no sense and has no basis. To be honest, this statement cannot be backed or corroborated by anything.

Second, sodomoites fuel the fires of God’s wrath. Sodmomy is defined as sexual intercourse between members of the opposite sex as well as the same sex. This statement applies to everyone. There is nothing in that statement that would indicate that God hates homosexuals. Where did this assumption come from? Why do these trumped up beliefs stop homosexuals from marrying?

When researching and browsing the internet, I wonder how far people will hurt others to further their beliefs. Who will have to play the victim for your beliefs? I also wonder where these facts and beliefs stem from. Where do people have the right to judge others for the choices they make, that do not harm them? What homosexuals do in their bedrooms or even marriage does not hurt the morals of society? Homosexual marriage hurts no one.

I hope that you will consider my questions and thoughts on this topic. Keeping an open mind away from biases is necessary to see this issue for what it is. You must leave all religious connotations out of the clearly Government Issue. I trust you will take all of these things into consideration. I wait for a response.

Sincerely


Daria Hall