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Does anybody know anything about Fred Phelps? He was picketing the Kansas state capitol today. Some of his signs were very disturbing. And what really got me was he was flying the American Flag upside down. And what got my mom was his sign "God is the reason for 9/11!"
just thought I would get some other opinions about him.
thanks
amanda
He and his band of ultra-religious windbags are a bunch of insane idiots. They picket everyone. They started by picketing gay parades. Now they picket Iraqi war veterans. I heard they're going to Lynchburg to picket Jerry Falwell now that he's died. Like I said, they're a bunch of nutcases.
another one of his signs was "God hates Fags" and little kids were there picketing with him
I just couldn't believe it
amanda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps
The Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group made up of wackadoos, and he's the head wackadoo. They pretty much hate everyone, but especially homosexuals.
~Sue
They are Calvinists with a little bit of 1930's-40's JW picketing mixed in. They are all great lawyers, I think twelve of the family members are lawyers. The use of fag is used to get attention and get them in the media. They spend about $250,000 a year on pickets across the country. The Westboro Baptist church is mainly two families that know how to market their message. Fred Phelps is a democrat that Al Gore called a great American that has represented minorities in court before any one else would. The theory is that Phelps do there thing to protect free speech and religion and will litigate to death anyone that gets in their way. Here is a 6 part show on the Phelps family from youtube.com http://youtube.com/results?search_query=god+hates+fags Watch the teenage girls laugh when they say someone is going to hell and the host catches Shirley Phelps not quite as convincing about here God hates fags routine.
No, I don't know anything about Fred Phelps, but I do know a little about:
David Wensky
Here is the Phelps law firm web site.
Who is David Wenski?
Another infamous Kansan!
Phelps plans to protest soldier's funeral
By CHUCK OXLEY
Associated Press writer
BOISE, Idaho -- A Kansas preacher and gay rights foe whose congregation is protesting military funerals around the country said he's coming to Idaho on today to picket the memorial for an Idaho National Guard soldier killed in Iraq.
A flier on the Web site of Pastor Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church claims God killed Cpl. Carrie French with an improvised explosive device in retaliation against the United States for a bombing at Phelps' church six years ago.
"We're coming," Phelps said Monday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Westboro Baptist either has protested or is planning protests of other public funerals of soldiers from Michigan, Alabama, Minnesota, Virginia and Colorado. A protest is planned for July 11 at Dover Air Force Base, the military base where war dead are transported before being sent on to their home states.
Phelps gained national notoriety in 1998 when he picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student beaten to death in Wyoming.
Since then, Phelps said his church has been the target of hateful words and actions, including a bomb attack six years ago.
Phelps' church has picketed the funerals of AIDS victims for more than a decade.
French, 19, was a Caldwell High School graduate and varsity cheerleader. She was killed June 5 in the northern city of Kirkuk. French served as an ammunition specialist with the 116th Brigade Combat Team's 145th Support Battalion.
Phelps said the fact that French led an all-American life gives him all the more reason to picket her final public tribute.
"An all-American girl from a society of all-American heretics," he said.
"Our attitude toward what's happening with the war is the Lord is punishing this evil nation for abandoning all moral imperatives that are worth a dime," Phelps said.
Caldwell Police Chief Bob Sobba said he cannot bar Phelps from going to the public funeral, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Albertson College of Idaho in that city.
"While we respect Mr. Phelps' right to protest, we would hope that he would respect the family and friends of this young person by not disrupting the memorial," Sobba said.
Idaho Air National Guard Lt. Tony Vincelli, acting as spokesman for French's family, said there were no plans to change the funeral arrangements.
The Rev. Brian Fischer, pastor of Boise's Community Church of the Valley, and himself a past target of protest by the Westboro Baptist Church, decried Phelps' plan.
"What Phelps is doing is a reprehensible thing, to take a funeral and turn it into a photo op for his hate cause," Fischer said. "We hope everyone will ignore Phelps' group."
In 2003, Phelps demanded that he be allowed to erect an anti-gay monument in a Boise public park. To avoid a lawsuit from his group, city officials voted in 2004 that a Ten Commandments monument be moved out of the park to a private setting.
Here's a little clip shown on Australian TV last year on 'The Chaser's War On Everything' regarding Fred Phelps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_o5TjAOPa4
Enjoy!
