MSNBC reported today that a radical church group has plans to protest and picket at Heath Ledger's funeral because he played a gay man in his Oscar nominated performance in Brokeback Mountain.A member of the group was quoted “You cannot live in defiance of God. He (Ledger) got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it's OK to be gay,” said Shirley Phelps in a statement sent out by the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church.
Now I am not going to get on my high horse or even get into what I believe is right or wrong. But I think that it is so incredibly sad that these people would not have enough respect for his family including his two year old daughter, his friends, and him as a human being to let him peacefully be laid to rest. The circumstances of his death are already so unexpected and sad. I can't imagine how heartbreaking this news is for them.
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