Oh, for the love of whatever non-benevolant deity!

Fred Phelps and his clan of lunatics are planning on protesting at Jerry Falwell's funeral.

This makes me feel odd and indecisive.

On the one hand: I don't like either of them and think that they both are (to slightly different degrees) idiotic, bigoted assholes who use a position of authority to teach hatred and encourage injustice. While I'm not rejoicing at Falwell's death - the man had a family, and rejoicing at a death of someone you didn't know personally if rather crude - I'm certainly not shedding any tears. Similarly, if Phelps were to get, say, stabbed in the heart with one of his picket signs, I wouldn't be particularly upset. The fewer screaming, bible-waving, religious zealots, the better.

On the other hand: Oh come on, you're making me feel something like sympathy for Jerry Falwell? How is this happening?

Falwell, in case you've forgotten, is the guy who went on TV shortly after September 11, 2001, and said that the death of several thousand people was God's punishment. Why is God punishing us? Because of feminism and abortions and homosexuals, mostly.

Personally I think that the best way to resolve this issue would be for Phelps (and his followers, please) to also die. Then they're no longer our problem, and they can duke it out for eternity in whatever fairlyland the Booming Voice in the Sky sends them to. Good riddance.