As far as I’m concerned comments about Weyrich, alive or dead, will be in compliance with our Comments Policy.

Not all disrespect is hate. Not all people who disagree with you are just like “bible thumpers” and the “far right”.

Its all very well and good that your personal code of beliefs says that we must say nothing nasty about the dead, but you still give us no reason to follow your code. After all – you have electronically wagged your finger at us all…so now tell us why.

Why do some (or perhaps all) people in death deserve respect, while in life they did very little to earn it?

Weyrich was a bigot. Weyrich hurt all of us. Weyrich is dead. Why should we not rejoice at the fact that the world has one less bigot?

And while I’d previously wished for him to be burning in his own hell, I changed my mind after a Satanist accquaintance told me that the Satanist’s hell involves the person learning the error of their ways through experience. Weyrich would have to be a gay person suffering the pain of homophobia, a pregnant teenager trying to get an abortion while screaming protesters blocked access to the clinic, a transgender woman being physically abused by hatemongers, etc–over and over again until he *got it*. So much more effective than merely burning and being poked with pitchforks IMO.

You confuse hate with disrespect. We did not respect Mr. Weyrich in life, why should we respect him in death?

Don’t shed too many tears. The dead are beyond being hurt. The living…not so much.

People such as Mr. Weyrich have hurt millions of living LGBT citizens. He reaps what he has sown. Trust me, he is not hurt by our disrespect.

If you could convert some of your overwrought sympathy for a dead bigot into a bit of compassion for the living, you might have a bit more credibility.