Here's the scary thing...

...these people are dead serious.

WBBM 780:

The Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), which is not affiliated with any national Baptist organization, announced plans to protest at victims’ funerals only hours after 32 people were killed in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. They also may protest at other events on the Virginia Tech campus.

The organization, founded and led by Fred Phelps, believes the United States has condemned itself to destruction by accepting homosexuality and other “sins of the flesh.” Phelps’ daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, said the Virginia Tech teachers and students who died on Monday brought their fate upon themselves by not being true Christians.

“The evidence is they were not Christian. God does not do that to his servants,” Phelps-Roper said. “You don’t need to look any further for evidence those people are in hell.”

They may not be affiliated with any national Baptist organization, but one has to assume that they work from a scripture that has the same template as all the other Christian rooted faiths. You know, the one that preaches loving one's fellow (wo)man and practicing tolerance and forgiveness of all one's fellows?

UPDATE 21 APR 07 21:46

And how do we think they'll react to this?