By Valerie Velikaya
Westboro Baptist Church is planning to picket the college’s two commencement ceremonies, held in the Gymnasium at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 16.
The message on their website stated:
“The young people graduating are God-hating, Bible illiterate, doomed souls, and their parents are to blame. The simple commandments of God are gratuitously ignored and those few who dare say you need to follow them are mocked and scorned. The young people graduating from Johnson County Community College need a simple message: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man (Ec 12:13). This means no sex outside of marriage, no killing your babies (aborting 4k a day), no divorce and remarriage and absolutely NO FAG MARRIAGE!!
The good news for the graduates, you’re grown now and whether or not your parents raised you to fear God, you have not only the opportunity to, but the duty to obey God. Your parents failed you, but you have the ability to read and obey and are without excuse.”
We have contacted the Westboro Baptist Church and are waiting for a response.
Contact Valerie Velikaya, news editor, at vvelikay@jccc.edu