# Fred Phelps gang run outta town! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 23, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504 "2006-10-23T00:25:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/1 "2006-10-23T00:25:12Z")
As a follower of Christ, I recognize it my responsibility to love my enemies, including the deranged Phelps clan. Damn Fred makes it hard. But it is ok if I hope a few of them shit their pants in this [video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrFVjg79_iM)? ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/2 "2006-10-23T00:26:36Z")
[I-Film alternative video](http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2781259?showw=no&refsite=6721&cpref=6721) ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/3 "2006-10-23T00:27:52Z")
Mod- if you can whack the extra “http://” off of the link in my first post, I would appreciate it. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/4 "2006-10-23T00:35:25Z")
That incident will just cement their view that they’re right, everyone else is wrong. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/5 "2006-10-23T00:39:43Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf] That incident will just cement their view that they’re right, everyone else is wrong. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] What wouldn’t? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/6 "2006-10-23T00:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf] That incident will just cement their view that they’re right, everyone else is wrong. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Well I could hear in their voices that they were not so sure that the Almighty God had their back on this one… ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/7 "2006-10-23T00:55:56Z")
They’re idiots, whichever way you look at it. Wearing “God Hates America” T-shirts in amongst a crowd of people waving the red-white-and-blue? God, in their mind, must hate patriotic mobs, too. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/8 "2006-10-23T00:56:18Z")
Oh man, I laughed. I laughed hard. I know it’s wrong to say, but that’s what those fuckers get. Finally they are getting a taste of the hate they’ve spewed on thousands- [including widowed pregnant women.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=328698) An eye for an eye might leave everyone blind, but this sure does bring a smile to my face. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/9 "2006-10-23T00:59:05Z")
Can we just all agree to put aside the rules of civilization for a few minutes and exterminate these fucks? Honestly, not even their own side, if there is one, wants them around. Just a brief back-turning by everyone while a select few, winners of a nation-wide lottery, get to go after them with flame-throwers. “I’ve got a little list…” ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/10 "2006-10-23T01:09:50Z")
That’s all we need, to elevate these fuckers to the level of martyrs. Howbout, instead of a brief back-turning, we get a permanent back turning? They should just be completely ignored–and I mean COMPLETELY. Let them fade into a vacuum of apathy. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/11 "2006-10-23T01:13:07Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf] That incident will just cement their view that they’re right, everyone else is wrong. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] _A rainy day_ would do that. A _sunny_ day would do that. _Pasta_ would do that. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/12 "2006-10-23T01:24:53Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] _A rainy day_ would do that. A _sunny_ day would do that. _Pasta_ would do that. [/QUOTE] Kind of my point. Any input at all–any feedback of any kind–will be interpreted as supportive of their mission. The only answer is ZERO feedback. They need to suddenly have nothing more significant to say than “Hello? Aren’t you people listening? Don’t we piss you off? . . . Hello? . . . Is this thing on?” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/13 "2006-10-23T01:58:01Z")
Probably the right response, but not as viscerally satisfying. Besides, if you wipe out the whole group, who are they going to be martyrs _for_? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/14 "2006-10-23T02:08:42Z")
OH, the poor oppressed Christians! We heathens are so cruel. None of seemed afraid. I want them to fear. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/15 "2006-10-23T02:10:47Z")
[QUOTE=Ice Wolf] They’re idiots, whichever way you look at it. Wearing “God Hates America” T-shirts in amongst a crowd of people waving the red-white-and-blue? [/QUOTE] What I don’t understand is how they can believe in such a hateful God. Isn’t the Christian God supposed to love what He has created (although I always thought the idea of ascribing emotions to God somewhat weird)? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/16 "2006-10-23T02:11:24Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] OH, the poor oppressed Christians! We heathens are so cruel. None of seemed afraid. I want them to fear. [/QUOTE] Nah, they just feel justified, I’d say. I tend to agree with **lissener** , as frustrating as doing absolutely nothing might be. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/17 "2006-10-23T02:13:51Z")
Would it be considered gauche to feel sorry that nobody in the crowd had a gun? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/18 "2006-10-23T02:29:58Z")
Yes. The last thing we need is another shooting for people to latch onto. Better someone with a chainsaw. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/19 "2006-10-23T02:30:56Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Yes. The last thing we need is another shooting for people to latch onto. Better someone with a chainsaw. [/QUOTE] Eh. Yours sounds good, too. ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504/20 "2006-10-23T02:38:13Z")
How about good old fashioned tarring and feathering?! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-gang-run-outta-town/377504.md?page=2)