Fred Phelps Westboro Baptist Church, Kansas; Gay Hate Activists Died Today

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Originally Posted by Corkey

If I were to pity them it would mean that they have no choice in their hatred. They chose to hate, I chose not to pity. I pity animals who are abused, babied born to people who don't love them, the haters do not deserve my pity

I feel you, Corkey.

For me, the fact that he chose to spend his life this way makes me pity him even more. Anyone consumed with such hatred, such negativity, is someone who, in my eyes, has never known love of any kind.

Making the choice to hurt other people speaks to me of a blackened heart, one that has never once felt the burning pinprick of sparkling light that love is. My heart breaks for anyone living in that kind of darkness.

I surely will not weep for this man and I surely will not picture him as a baby, innocent in a crib waiting to be loved, but honestly at some point in his life, he *was* a baby in a crib just wanting to be loved and he very clearly didn't get it.

Instead of doing what evolved, warm-hearted, loving people do and working to heal himself, he let that black hole of need take over anything remotely redeemable about him. Fuck. Can you fucking imagine having to live that kind of life?