Fred Phelps is dying.

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I was bored so did a little poking around. The WBC is known for using Twitter a lot. At least one of the founders of Twitter has a child with his girlfriend (not his wife). Since they make a shit ton of money from owning Twitter, I must conclude that WBC supports, by their own definition, whores.

They also use Facebook and by extension enrich the owners. One of the founders, worth nearly $1 billion, is gay and legally married to his husband. So I must also conclude that they are ‘fag enablers’. (their term)

Based on their own message, they would have to say GOD HATES WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH.

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I doubt the church’d’ve been interested in sending you to jail; they’d rather get money from a civil suit.

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I just came across an article from The Washington Post, discussing Phelps and his church in decidedly hostile terms mostly, and discussing the degree of nuisance they have caused in the Topeka community. Holy hell: Fred Phelps, clergyman, is on a crusade. The article also discusses the warfare between them and Joan Hamilton, district attorney of Shawnee County, who has made some serious attempt to shut him down.

Unfortunately, WaPo has this annoying habit of NOT displaying the dates of their on-line articles. Although I found this article on today’s Google news page, it mostly seems to discuss events of about 20 years ago as if they were fairly recent, and does not mention anything more recent.

Still, the article is interesting, for its discussion of how much damage they did to the ambient civility of Topeka.

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It’s there, just hard to find: November 12, 1995.

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Kind of odd, almost like he planned it that way or something, the old man’s body gave out on International Day of Happiness.

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So we don’t have to change the date for the IDoH. Good.

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Hey, I’m the one who does moral equivalences around here. And even I say you’re overstating it.

You would be as bad as he is when he protested, maybe. But he made the WBC do a lot more than just picket funerals. And he protested a lot more than one funeral.

I’d still say that, if you disapproved of him protesting funerals, you probably shouldn’t protest his, but saying it would make you as bad as Phelps is just silly.

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God is not without a sense of humor.

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am I the only one that cried when they heard fred Phelp’s died?

he was a TRUE HERO to us all. he stood up for what he believed in.

rip fred :(:frowning:

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I doubt he will. Nor will you when your time comes.

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Personally I laughed. We all deal with…oh let’s call it grief…in different ways.

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Thank you for your contribution, Mrs. Phelps.

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God
hates
trolls

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This is a whoosh right? It’s gotta be sarcasm at least.

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Hard to say. I had a hard time believing Phelps was real at first too, he was so ridiculous.

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You know who else stood up for what they believed in?
What? Oh, we already did that in this thread?

Nevermind then, carry on.

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Maya Angelou!

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Fred Phelp’s what?

And FYI we’re talking about Fred Phelps, not Fred Phelp. I don’t even know who Fred Phelp is.

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Good riddance to bad garbage. He wasn’t worth the breath to speak that sentence out loud. The world is spinning easier today because he’s gone, and it’s only a shame his congregants didn’t follow him to hell.

Which is saying a lot, since I’m an atheist and don’t believe there is a hell.

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The Onion on his life and work.

(Sorry if already posted)