Fred Phelps is surely going to hell.

I won't even go into that any further; if you've heard of the "Reverend" Fred Phelps and his band of demon-spawn, you don't want to hear of them again, and if you haven't heard of them, consider yourself lucky. Their practice of protesting at the funerals of dead U.S. soldiers is pretty repellent to begin with. When you consider that they're protesting because they think gay people have somehow caused...well, pretty much everything bad, then it's even more heinous, bizarre and asinine.

Someone's finally doing something about it, and I'm glad. Those families don't deserve to deal with the Phelps Phreaks. But a sentiment attributed to Richard Wilbur got me thinking. "He said he has no problem with protests against the war but sees no place for objectors at a family's final goodbye to a soldier. 'No one deserves this.' "

The thing is, these protests aren't against the war. They're against me, and anyone like me. And we don't deserve that, either.