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A federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland, Wednesday awarded $10.9 million to a father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by members of a fundamentalist church carrying signs blaming soldiers’ deaths on America’s tolerance of homosexuals.

This is sad on so many levels.

First and foremost, these idiots are disturbing funerals. Funerals of people who most likely died way too young. I don’t agree one bit with war (on any level), but these soldiers are just normal boys and girls, taken from their home country to go fight against an enemy they can barely see in the scorching heat in a desert on the other side of the world. These people deserve a respectful and peaceful burial, just like everybody else.

Secondly, they say this is a punishment by god for America’s tolerance towards homosexuality. Right-o. I would say that if there is a god involved in all this, don’t you think he’s punishing the US for being unable to properly feed and take care of its citizens? You see, America may call itself god’s nation, but if there is one country on this planet that is anything but Christian, it’s the US. The people in charge in the US have little to no understanding of what Christianity (or Judaism, or Islam for that matter) is all about: tolerance, respect, and love. Those three words are the pillars of Christianity (and yes, of Judaism and Islam too, these three faiths are mostly the same anyway) in my eyes - and let’s face, many people in the US, including these religious idiots, have lost all touch with these core values.

As far as I’m concerned, the police arrests all of these morons whenever they try to ruin another funeral. Stuff like this should be harshly punished. Even the biggest of criminals deserve a peaceful funeral. That’s what separates us civilised people from barbarians.