Fred Phelps falls off the edge of the world...

[DeadlyAccurate]

@elucidator

This is not possible. There is a limit even to dark, unreasoning hatreds. A man consecrated to the service of Jesus would not contemplate such a thing as this. Even a debased and vile person has enough rationality to know when he is unpinning a hand grenade and pounding it up his own ass.

Just as divine and merciful miracles are impossible, because they offend any notion of reason and causation, so are miracles of malignant malice impossible, and therefore they cannot, and therefore did not, happen.

And I will refuse to believe it, despite any evidence offered.

It ain’t so, because it can’t be so.

If you have the time, http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/michael_haggerty/expose3.htm

[matt_mcl]

@elucidator

This is not possible. There is a limit even to dark, unreasoning hatreds. A man consecrated to the service of Jesus would not contemplate such a thing as this. Even a debased and vile person has enough rationality to know when he is unpinning a hand grenade and pounding it up his own ass.

Yup.

Hating fags so much you’ll picket the funeral of the grandmother of someone who might have done something nice for gay people == normal and rational.

Hating soldiers == round the twist.

Seriously, don’t you think he reached the “limit for dark, unreasoning hatred” about ten or fifteen years ago?

[SteveG1]

@FinnAgain

Sooner or later, that man is going to get very, very badly hurt.

One can only hope that a large contingent of relatives and war vets is there the same time he is, and gives him some “corrective instruction”.

[NinjaChick]

He and his little goonies picketed the memorial service for Mr. Rogers.

Really, I think that says all that needs to be said about him. To paraphrase: He is an utter fuckwicket.

[SteveG1]

I just looked at that godhatesamerica website. What a disgusting bastard.

[The_Scrivener]

Wait’ll news of this gets around to our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pissing off hundreds of thousands of Americans trained to handle firearms, plus their families and friends, can’t be a smart idea.

Fred & co. will be lucky if the worst thing that happens to them is some angry picketing at their compound.

I wonder if military funerals enjoy any special protection in law from offensive or trespassing picketers than other funerals… and if an anti-Phelps activist lawyer could file a motion pinning them on some obscure ordinance concerning political harrassment of funereal parties, slander or funereal desecrations during times of war, etc.

I’d like to see Phelps do this at a place like Arlington National. That’d bring in the big networks and stir up a shitstorm of public condemnation.

[Baker]

Phelps has been on national before. Remember Matthhew Shephard’s funeral? And he made all four major news services when he picketed the funeral of Randy Shilts, reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, and author of And The Band Played On.

[dropzone]

@The Scrivener

I wonder if military funerals enjoy any special protection in law from offensive or trespassing picketers than other funerals…

I do not believe so. Most people wouldn’t think it would be necessary, but with Phelps running free, I don’t know.

[Suburban_Rythm]

That pain in your frontal lobe? Yeah. You just got dumber for having read that site.

[Captain_Amazing]

@matt_mcl

Hating fags so much you’ll picket the funeral of the grandmother of someone who might have done something nice for gay people == normal and rational.

Well, more than that. Phelps has announced he’s going to picket Jerry Falwell’s funeral when he dies, because, while Falwell thinks that homosexuality is evil and that gays shouldn’t be allowed rights like marriage, adoption, or protection against discrimination, he also thinks that God still loves gay people.

So, he’ll even picket you for not disliking gay people enough.

[Mockingbird]

@kambuckta

But how destructive can he be when nobody pays him any credence because he is a fucken loon?

Like, seriously, how many members of his church are there?

There are freakazoids in every society (although I have to admit there seem to be more per capita in the USA than anywhere else), but that doesn’t mean we have to take notice of them.

Just let them alone…they will eventually run out of oxygen and die.

If one person feels validated by seeing/hearing him he does harm.

With the comments he made about Matthew Shepherd after his murder, he did harm to the Shepherd family.

Even the strongest person can be hurt while grieving by a sadistic monster hurling vile epithets about the loved one now lost.

[Ike_Witt]

Is there any explanation for how Phelps became the way he is?

[GLWasteful]

@MackoUr

(aren’t they mostly his family?)

Yeah, and a nasty bunch of happy assholes they are, too. Honestly, I would be thrilled to turn on the news only to hear that the Phuckers had finally picketed the wrong funeral and had been eliminated with extreme prejudice. The world would be a helluva lot better off.

Waste

[SteveG1]

@adam yax

Is there any explanation for how Phelps became the way he is?

He lay sleeping beneath the sea for eons, until the mad prophet opened the Necronomicon and recited the cursed words within.

[elucidator]

Your comparison slanders Cthulu.

[Knorf]

Your spelling blasphemes Cthulhu.

[Crimmsy]

@adam yax

Is there any explanation for how Phelps became the way he is?

this site paints a fairly detailed picture of him and his family. It’s a sickening story.

[Reeder]

@adam yax

Is there any explanation for how Phelps became the way he is?

He’s a closet gay. He hates himself.

So he takes it out on everyone else.

[andros]

@Knorf

Your spelling blasphemes Cthulhu.

Oooh! If I blaspheme, can I get eaten first?

[Mockingbird]

@Reeder

He’s a closet gay. He hates himself.

So he takes it out on everyone else.

Rather than taking it out on the gays by coming out and coming on to them.

Ew.