An Absurd Moment in Lafayette

Not like there aren't many,many absurd moments in Lafayette.However, today's events were quite absurd. Well, one of Lafayette's very own returned in a bodybag today from Iraq and recieved a grand funeral from the townsfolk, replete with everything down to the lowering of all of the American flags around town. Ok, so, the Westboro Baptist Church gang, ala Matthew Shepard fame came to town to pickett at the funeral. Their message was that god is killing U.S. soldier's because the U.S. is too accepting of homosexuality. This makes for an odd protest, given the political ideologies of the aforementioned sides(militaristic, religious fundamentalism). What is interesting is I can picture the scene of the unwanted protest and the meeting of the two groups: One of the guards hired to keep the protestors at bay throws up his hand," Now, we're with you on the homo issue boys, but this here isn't the time or the place for it."