rethinking the death penalty

Sometimes you read something in the news and wish to yourself that the law had an instant death penalty provision, where the sentence could be carried out on the spot by any law-abiding citizen with an ounce of brain. Well, this article tells of members of a small Baptist church picketing at the funerals of US servicemen, arguing, and I quote, that "Americans are dying for a country that harbors homosexuals".

I am blown away by the perversity of this action, and by the extent of Christian close-mindedness and self-righteousness. Radical Islam does not seem so radical in comparison.