# Fred Phelps is dying.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-dying/683820>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 16, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-dying/683820 "2014-03-16T05:20:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-dying/683820/301 "2014-03-25T15:13:37Z")

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> [@Morgenstern](#):
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> Yep, checked, he’s still dead. I read that Og sent a supply of helmets and window cleaner to the Westboro Baptist Church.

I’m gonna feel really stupid, I can just tell, but … can someone please 'splain?

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**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-dying/683820/302 "2014-03-25T16:24:00Z")

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> [@pinkteddyx64](#):
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> …
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> rip fred :(☹

More like BIH\* Fred

\*Burn in Hell

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**Author:** ![Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kansas\_Beekeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kansas_Beekeeper)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-dying/683820/303 "2014-03-25T17:36:25Z")

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There’s a letter to the editor by Margie Phelps today in the Topeka Capitol Journal stating that the WBC will continue. She’s not faring well in the comments, however.

> **[Letter: Westboro Baptist Church pickets about truth of God](https://www.cjonline.com/story/opinion/letters/2014/03/25/letter-westboro-baptist-church-pickets-about-truth-god/16675288007/)**
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> Since Westboro Baptist Church began picketing 24 years ago, Topeka has been known for two things — loving sin and an utter intolerance for the truth of God. There is nothing you haven’t tried in your…

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-is-dying/683820/304 "2014-03-27T02:40:55Z")

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Apparently this threat against the hospice Fred was in happened a week ago and is only now being announced…

[http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/252251941.html](http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/252251941.html)

> **[Midland Hospice where Fred Phelps died was target of criminal threat](https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2014/03/24/midland-hospice-where-fred-phelps-died-was-target-criminal-threat/16675321007/)**
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> The hospice facility where Pastor Fred W. Phelps Sr. was staying and ultimately died received a criminal threat regarding an explosion, according to the Topeka Police Department. 
> An email sent to a…

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