The “Westboro Baptist Church,” listed as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, today cheered on the shooting of a New York City police officer on the “Westboro Baptist Church” (WBC) blog “GodSmack.”

The New York Daily News reports that “A uniformed police officer was shot three times in a Bronx  apartment Monday by a man furious that his elderly mother’s home health aide was rejecting his advances. After health aide Yesenia Rodriguez asked him to stop propositioning her, Santiago Urena pulled a gun and threatened her. She called police. Urena, 57, then opened fire without warning on arriving Officer Robert Salerno, 25, police said. Salerno, a three-year veteran from the 44th Precinct, was hit twice below the stomach and taken to Lincoln Hospital in serious condition, officials said.”

For defending this health care worker for an elderly woman and getting shot in the process, the “hate group” “Westboro Baptist Church” (WBC) cheered on this attack on a U.S. police officer, claiming that this was their view of God “repaying” American police officers who “have been mistreating WBC now for years.”

On March 22, 2010, the WBC hate group stated that:

“You USA cops have been mistreating WBC now for years, violating your sworn duty and allowing miscreants to access our peaceful members while they picket.  God will get you for that, and here’s how we know that’s so:God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent; hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?  Numbers 23:19.  That’s right, you scoffers and mockers, God talks!  And he says he will repay you TO YOUR FACE for what you do to the apple of his eye.  Too bad, so sad for you!”

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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) urges all Christians to reject and condemn this message of hate from the “Westboro Baptist Church.”  Moreover, we urge all Christians to convey to “Christian-named” “hate groups” such as the “Westboro Baptist Church” that John 13:34 “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”

For all those who hate, whether their rationale is based on racial or religious supremacy, R.E.A.L. urges you to

Choose Love, Not Hate.

Love Wins.