I couldn’t decide which forum to post this in, but since it’s my opinion, it ended up here:
Browsing http://www.godhatesfags.com (which until fairly recently, I thought was a satirical site (like Landover Baptists)), it strikes me that Mr Phelps’ behaviour and attitude could be interpreted as arising from repressed homosexuality, what do you think?
FTR; I’m hetero, married and a christian; I have no ‘agenda’ to push here (except that I think he shouldn’t be allowed to spout such hateful and misinformed tripe)
I really ought to leave that site alone, but it’s so utterly weird and frightening, it’s almost compelling, anyway, I came across a link there called ‘Love Crusades’ - ‘this is going to be interesting’ I thought to myself, so I click on ‘Love crusades’, and what did I get…
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I’ve seen many a thread opened on this board regarding this guy and Jack Chick, and frankly, I’d never heard of them before. Just reading the posts gave me more information about them than I care to have. Out of curiosity I went to the FP site listed in the OP thread for the first time just now. I won’t ever go back. Ever. Why would anybody? He actually posts the number of days that Matthew Shepard has supposedly been in hell. That truly sickens me and I physically cringed when I read that. What kind of God would countenance such vile, repulsive hatred? Not the God I know. Yes, I do believe in the existence of evil. These two people feel terribly, horribly evil to me.
My parents taught me as a child “garbage in, garbage out”. I believe it. I won’t ever look at anything having to do with these two people again. I think true evil sickens the soul, and they’ve proved it.
Fred Phelps and Jack Chick aren’t even in the same zip code. Jack Chick is a dishonest, bigoted religious zealot, sure. But who knows, he might be a pleasant man in person. I’ve never heard that he absuses his wife and kids. Phelps is a psychotic, abusive madman who enjoys beating up children. There’s a big difference between an irritating jerk (Chick) and a complete psycho (Phelps.)
Then your lucky. 'Cause normally what you get is a list of places he’s going to picket- many of them funerals. Last week it was a man who died on one of the hijacked airplanes who he heard was gay. His friends and family need to be told he’s in hell now. I wish I were making this up and there were depths even Fred could not sink to but I’m not.
See, this is why I can’t totally agree with people who say just ignore him, he’s a nut. Sure he’s a nut and even other nuts don’t take him seriously, but those families may have a hard time ignoring him on what’s already the worst day of there lives.
(Oh yeah, no funerals schedualed in the Love Crusades this week. Just a celebration of Matthew Shepard’s “entry into hell”. Fuck, he’ll probably try to call Matt’s mom up. Evil, evil, evil.)
Jesus! Never heard of this Phelps fella before. Does anyone have a link with a photo of him? The Matthew Shepherd “Memorial” is particularly repellent.