Westboro Baptist Church=Left Wing Cult?

[Annik]

Well I see you guys have the left/right wing topic covered already, I'd nitpick about calling WBC a "cult". While it is true they practice ex-communication (which is itself somewhat Biblically based, although their interpretation of it is extreme), I wouldn't call WBC a "cult". They're very well organized, very intelligent and fully integrated into society. To label them as a cult is to attribute to them traits which are not true.

They aren't a violent or criminal group they are a pressure group, a political group and a hate group. Bikie gangs tend to be associated with organized crime (or is that only here in Australia) - at any rate, protesting funerals is just their way of expressing their freedom of speech - and they are not allowed to protest too near to funerals anyway (the distance is actually quite far). The one positive thing about WBC is that they defend very diligently the right to free speech.

Well, WBC doesn't integrate well within the host culture. They are hostile towards it and the host culture is hostile in return. This is the definition of a cult, minus the part about cult beliefs not coming from main stream religions. I say they are a culty sect.