The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), listed as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, planned to picket and protest the Dallas Holocaust Museum, a Jewish synagogue (Congregation Beth el Binah), Jewish Community Center of Dallas, Yavneh Academy of Dallas, and the Texas Jewish Post, in Dallas, Texas today, July 9, 2010. In addition, the Westboro Baptist Church “hate group” plans to protest the Chabad of Dallas on Sunday, July 11, 2010.
Dallas Holocaust Museum where Westboro Baptist Church Hate Group Plans Anti-Semitic Protest on July 9, 2010 (Photo: Dallas Holocaust Museum Web Site)
Dallas, Texas: Chabad of Dallas - where Westboro Baptist Church Hate Group Plans Anti-Semitic Protest on July 11 (Photo: Google)
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) rejects efforts to use hate and intimidation to deny our universal human rights of freedom of religion and worship. R.E.A.L. has also posted on the previous activities by the Westboro Baptist Church to protest synagogues in New York City and in Colorado. R.E.A.L. has reported on the Westboro Baptist Church spreading Holocaust Denial in its videos stating “you lie about the holocaust days.”
Westboro Baptist Church Hate Group Protester with Anti-Semitic Sign "God Hates Jews"
In May 2010, the Congregation Beth el Binah reported receiving a package from Westboro Baptist Church “hate group” labeled “Obama Hates Israel,” with a DVD “Jews killed Jesus”; this was reported by the Dallas Voice on May 6, 2010.
In Dallas, a non-profit organization the Resource Center Dallas is calling for members of the north Texas community to donate a dollar for each minute that the Westboro Baptist Church protests the Congregation Beth el Binah, which has outreach to the LGBT community of Dallas. Resource Center Dallas Associate Executive Director Bret Camp has stated that “the protestors have been known to abandon their protests when they’re turned into a fundraiser.”
The Jewish Star has reported on the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC): “The automated telephone greeting at the Westboro Baptist Church features a pleasant, Southern-accented female voice who advises if you are a ‘Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, or Christ-rejecting Jew,’ that ‘God hates you all.'”
On June 24, 2010, the WBC also praised “world terror” and terrorist attacks on humanity. The WBC group has praised terrorist bombings on a Somalia mosque, praised terrorist attacks against Iraqi Christians, and has praised the shooting and the murder of police officers. At the end of April 2010, the Florida-based Dove World Outreach group decided to support and defend the WBC, and held a joint march with the WBC “hate group.” Dove World Outreach’s objective is to promote a message that “Islam is of the Devil.” On July 4, the WBC’s ally Dove World Outreach held their own protest against an Islamic mosque in Gainesville, Florida.
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Some view the Westboro Baptist Church as merely “fundamentalist.” We challenge that definition and instead view their efforts to seek to deny freedom of religion, freedom of worship to others by intimidation tactics, as well as their history of praising violence against others and praising violence against law enforcement, as nothing less than a “Christian supremacist” “hate group.” We call upon all Christians to denounce the Westboro Baptist Church’s activities and their interpretation of Christianity as not representing the views of most Christians around the world.
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) supports our universal human rights, including our universal human right of dignity, and our universal human rights of freedom of religion, freedom of worship, and freedom of conscience. Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”
We condemn such protests against houses of worship as seeking to intimidate and spread fear among those seeking their universal human rights of freedom of worship. We urge those whose hearts are burdened by hate against others to remove the burden of hate from their hearts, and to find common cause with their fellow human beings in being responsible for equality and liberty together.
We urge all to Choose Love, Not Hate, Love Wins.
