Remember Westboro Baptist, those fun filled folks who run the "god hates fags" website and who protest military funerals?  Well, they are back at it again.

They claim on their disgusting web site that:

“The Amish school girls were killed by a madman in punishment for Gov. Ed Rendell’s blasphemous sins against Westboro Baptist Church. Gov. Ed Rendell — speaking and acting in his official capacity to bind the State of Pennsylvania — slandered and mocked and ridiculed and condemned Westboro Baptist Church on national Fox TV. We are continuing to pray for even worse punishment upon Pennsylvania.”

So the protests were on at Amish funerals for girls slain by a deranged idiot.

Pardon me for a momentary lapse of civility.

HOW FUCKING STUPID ARE THESE PEOPLE?  How sick, and stupid and insensitive and disrespectful? 

Rant off.

Fortunately they will not protest afterall.  They got a better offer: Air Time.

A Topeka church that had said it planned to protest at the funerals of five Amish girls killed in Pennsylvania this week now says it won't have the protest.

That comes after a nationally syndicated radio talk show host, Mike Gallagher, offered the Westboro Baptist Church an hour of airtime tomorrow in exchange for dropping the demonstration.

Confirmed at the Mississippi Sun Herald.

Members of a radical Baptist church based in Kansas Wednesday dropped its plan to picket at the funerals of five Amish girls slain in Lancaster County on Monday.

Westboro Baptist Church said it had planned to appear at the Amish services to protest Gov. Edward G. Rendell's signing of legislation this summer restricting its picketing at funerals of American soldiers and for what it said were "blasphemous" comments he made about the group.

Church leaders, in a statement Wednesday, announced that they had dropped those plans and instead would appear on a nationally syndicated radio talk show. The Web site of show host Mike Gallagher indicated that the group was offered an hour of airtime Thursday morning in exchange for scrapping the demonstration.

Good.

Ken Schram took exception to this today on the radio, because he considers this pandering to them.  He is right I suppose, but I think he misses a larger issue:  The privacy of the families and the respect to the dead.

What I mean here is that I am appreciative of radio host Mike Gallagher for intervening.  I don't care what his or their motives are.  I don't care why he offered it or why they accepted.

A funeral will be spared hate filled idiocy and disrespect.

It was the right thing to do, for whatever reason. 

Also blogging this:
Stop the ACLU, Wizbang, Blue Star Chronicles, Hot Air

Previously on Westboro:

• Finally, something both sides can agree on
• Free Speech? Not at a friggin funeral, for crying out loud

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