When students at Texas A&M found out that the Westboro Baptist Church was planning a protest at the funeral of a soldier who was killed in active duty, they formed a "maroon wall" around the church to shelter the family and friends of the fallen soldier.
The students organized the event after the church announced it would protest former A&M student Lt. Col. Roy Tisdale’s funeral. He was killed during a training exercise at Fort Bragg on June 28.
GIG 'em! Go AGGIES! God Bless you guys!
ReplyDeleteHe was not a former Aggie, he was a former student. Once an Aggie, always an Aggie.
ReplyDeleteWhy protest?
ReplyDeleteI can not believe that anyone would protest a soldiers funeral! It disgusts me that a church would organize something so despicable. I am truly sorry for their actions. My thoughts go out to this family and my pride goes out to the students of Texas A & M.
ReplyDeleteI can not believe that anyone would protest a soldiers funeral! It disgusts me that a church would organize something so despicable. I am truly sorry for their actions. My thoughts go out to this family and my pride goes out to the students of Texas A & M.
ReplyDeleteThe actions of those students make me so proud to be an Aggie! Gig'em!
ReplyDeletenothing i have read has said so, but was the church protesting because the soldier was gay??? and if so idk how they can sleep at night for being so bigoted, and also how very very cool of the students. what's funny is you've got the church, thinking they are so religious and doing the 'right' thing, when actually it's the students doing it.
ReplyDeleteNothing to do with sexuality, againt the war.
Deletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/westboro-baptist-church_n_1693548.html
The way I read the article was it was a protest against the war and sexuality. "group's belief that deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan are God's punishment for the United States' tolerance of homosexuality."
DeleteWhat is the context of the story? It's kind of hard to make a judgement on something like this without all of the details.
ReplyDeletewhy was the church trying to protest ????
ReplyDelete