Open Letter To Chris Wallace
By Mitch Berg
To: Chris Wallace, Fox News
From: Mitch Berg
Re: Your interview with Shirley Phelps
Mr. Wallace,
As you are aware, debating lawyers is entirely do-able.
I was going to say that debating cultists – as in your interview with Shirley Phelps, daughter of Phred Phelps, and the lawyer who won Westboro Baptist Church’s case at the Supreme Court on the nature, and even contradictions, of their cult theology – is just not.
But then immediately afterwards, watching you flense Dick Durbin, I realized you were just sandbagging.
That is all.
March 7th, 2011 at 9:58 am
I have only one thing to say to Shirley Phelps and the Westboro Baptist bigots.
1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
– 1 Corinthians, chapter 13
“The Devil can quote scripture to his own purpose.” – Wm Shakespeare.
“Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” – Jesus Christ
March 7th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Amen, Kermit.
March 7th, 2011 at 11:31 am
Or, in other words:
Hate is impatient and unkind; hate envies and boasts; it is arrogant and rude. It insists on its own way; it is irritable and resentful; it rejoices at wrongdoing, and does not rejoice with the truth. Hate bears nothing, believes nothing, hopes for nothing, endures nothing.
March 7th, 2011 at 11:37 am
I was surprised that Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation yesterday, criticized the Supreme Court for allowing these miscreants to protest at military funerals.
March 7th, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Hate is destructive. The Westboro Baptist bigots do far more damage to Christian evangelism than any atheist could possibly dream of.
By their fruit shall you know them.
March 7th, 2011 at 1:21 pm
BH429: Isn’t Schieffer a liberal? It doesn’t surprise me a bit that he would criticize them. Liberals are all for stamping out free speech if it offends ANYONE’S sensibilities.
I’m surprised at the 8-1 decision of the SCOTUS. A) that it wasn’t 5-4, and B) that it was Alito who caused it not to be 9-0.
March 7th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Bill C;
That is my usual take on him, but he did start his criticism by stating that he is a strong defender of first amendment rights, but takes exception to this issue. His argument is sound; he basically stated and I’m paraphrasing: when families are already grieving more than anyone that hasn’t gone through it can possibly imagine, these disrespectful displays have no place in our society and we should do everything possible to prevent them. I give him credit, because the average liberal that I know, doesn’t care that these pieces of crap protest at a fallen soldier’s funeral.
Thank God for people like the Patriot Guard Riders that run interference for the families.
March 8th, 2011 at 11:34 am
“Thank God for people like the Patriot Guard Riders that run interference for the families.”
AMEN!