Did some Google'n to find out who these imbeciles are - turns out they're a bunch of RABID, foaming at the mouth, homophobes. Their only agenda is the national media attention they will gain from desecrating SSG Piper's memorial service.
Despicable.
Intruding on a memorial service and inflicting a hostile partisan viewpoint on the family and mourners in the profundity of their grief is an act beneath contempt. The depths to which self-appointed, self-important, arbiters of the National Conscience will stoop to force the dissemination of their messages of intolerance and an enforced conformity to their ideals nauseates and infuriates me. To denigrate the service, life, and sacrifice of a soldier slain defending their rights (however indirectly) bespeaks a contempt for all who would put themselves in harms way in defense of them. It also conveys contempt for the ideals that would have those rights apply equally to all. Yet these are the selfsame "pillars of the community" who leap to respond with righteous indignation when they are held deficient against some other equally arbitrary moral/ethical standard. I could only wish them a world made to their image: hatred and intolerance for all who do not conform to an arbitrary norm - that they may discern the fallacies of their beliefs by living subject to the results - were the rest of us not likewise required to suffer the consequences of their arrogance and ignorance. What really frosts my cornflakes - the only appropriate and civilized response is the resounding silence of indifference - to them and their causes.
Bastards!
Peregrino