# Fred Phelps is coming
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-coming/300670
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 22, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-coming/300670 "2005-04-22T21:28:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-coming/300670/41 "2005-04-25T17:35:21Z")
I sometimes wonder if the grandchildren, the younger ones. wonder what actually goes on inside other churches. They’ve been taught about “fag orgies on the altar” and so on, you know. I myself once heard Fred’s son Jonathan pointing to some of us counterpicketers and instructing his own son “You see those people there? They are sodomites, and all they want to do is grab you and rape you, so don’t get too close.”
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-coming/300670/42 "2005-04-25T20:02:27Z")
Silly String. By the case. Use your imagination.
That is all…
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-coming/300670/43 "2005-04-25T20:52:29Z")
> [@Baker](#):
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> I sometimes wonder if the grandchildren, the younger ones. wonder what actually goes on inside other churches. They’ve been taught about “fag orgies on the altar” and so on, you know. I myself once heard Fred’s son Jonathan pointing to some of us counterpicketers and instructing his own son “You see those people there? They are sodomites, and all they want to do is grab you and rape you, so don’t get too close.”
That sounds like child abuse, right there. Those poor kids don’t have a chance.
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### Author:  [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-coming/300670/44 "2005-04-25T21:29:41Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> I wonder if his family will elect a new leader or just actually go and get lives with whatever’s left of their lives after he dies or becomes otherwise incapacitated.
Actually, I would imagine that there’s at least one son who is ready to step up when the old bastard dies. Best case scenario: Huge schismic rift when several sons decide that they alone are fit to carry the batshit insane mantle, leading to everyone in the group suing the living shit out of each other.
Maybe then Topeka will be known for their zoo. No guarantees, but maybe.
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