Beth learned from a friend in West Virginia that the God Hates Yous, that Kansas gang of self-righteous fundamentalists, will be demonstrating in Glenville at a memorial for the dead miners. they laugh and cheer at God's punishment. their schadenfreude is inexplicable insofar as the extent that anything in WV resembles Gomorrah in the least is next to nil. as fundamental as so many in WV are, this kansas group out fundamentals them. nd this snake bit nastiness seems to have nothing real to go on. just as hounding elementary school children, as happened up here last spring, seemed like simple derangement. apocalyptic visions aren't new, but the instigation of these folks seems nothing but pure crabbiness. miners trudge into the mines, the mystery play of poverty. and they very well do have a god, much-invoked. which si to say, I could see the guns coming out. becasue the deaths are raw wounds, indicative of the commerce of raw wounds that is the state of West Virginia. all the usages that have been made of the land and the people. them kansas folk, messing with that. our correspondent, who I am pleased to call a good Christian, just asks why. the Kansas group is a cabal of lawyers, truly. slick and knowing and sure of some letter of heartless law. the God Hate Yous Church in Kansas is small, like 100 in the congregation. but they must be rich as sin.