# Fred Phelps now appearing in Las Vegas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 6, 2004, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876 "2004-05-06T17:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/21 "2004-05-07T06:24:41Z")
As I’ve mentioned in a number of other threads, I live in Topeka and can see the Phelps Klan all the time. The following is a link to one of their faxes announcing the picketing trip to Vegas. Probably not work safe. [http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/may2004/Vegas\_Acadamy\_5-4-2004.pdf](http://www.godhatesfags.com/fliers/may2004/Vegas_Acadamy_5-4-2004.pdf) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/22 "2004-05-07T06:25:46Z")
BTW, their website doesn’t call it picketing, it’s Upcoming Love Crusades. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/23 "2004-05-07T06:49:28Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > BTW, their website doesn’t call it picketing, it’s Upcoming Love Crusades. How does that expression go? “If they quack like dumbfucks, they are dumbfucks.” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/24 "2004-05-07T06:55:24Z")
😛 That’s a good one! ---
**Author:** ![htns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@htns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/htns)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/25 "2004-05-07T13:02:11Z")
Here’s an idea. If the picketers are standing in a line holding signs, stand at the end of the line with a big sign. What would be on that sign, you ask? Wait for it… Burma-Shave. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/26 "2004-05-07T13:05:52Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > The danger here is that, although it is easy and seems justifiable to say that Phred isn’t a Christian, it really is still the No True Scotsman fallacy. Someone on this board (I forget who) once said (words to the effect) “If someone tells em they are a Christian, then as far as I’m concerned they are a Christian, just the same as someone who tells me they are homosexual is, in my opinion, homosexual.” I will shamelessly take credit for that one. I use it whenever I say something negative about a Christian, and the person says “Well, someone who says they are a Christian.” It always gets a good reaction. Phred is evil. Pure & simple. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2004, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/27 "2004-05-07T14:06:42Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > I think I speak for many here when I ask, WHAT HAPPENED??? You tell me. It’s happening next week. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/28 "2004-05-12T17:10:26Z")
It’s next week! Today is the day! Can any Vegas Dopers let the rest of us know later on if the WBC actually showed up? Sometimes they boldly proclaim they will be picketing, to plump out their schedule, then don’t really show up. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/29 "2004-05-12T17:23:12Z")
The Phelps cronies showed up at the Las Vegas Academy high school at 630 this morning to protest. I havent heard anything else so far today. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/30 "2004-05-12T17:36:14Z")
here is a link: [http://www.kvvutv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1861767&nav=2NiwN3mm](http://www.kvvutv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1861767&nav=2NiwN3mm) ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/31 "2004-05-12T22:40:52Z")
Excuse me while I chortle evilly. You see, Boss 1 is in Las Vegas, and Boss 2 joins him tomorrow. They’re both straight (it’s Boss 1’s bachelor party) and they have no idea who Fred Phelps is, but I could just see myself suggesting some entertainment! (We really do need an Evil smiley.) You know, I’ve talked more times than I can count about a loving, compassionate God, but somehow I think Phelps is going to be in for a rather nasty shock at the end of all things. I figure the best he can hope for is finding out just how wrong he’s been. Oh, and **LVgeogeek** , let me pass on to you something I heard from my Wiccan friends: “They’re your rules. He’s your god. _You_ burn in hell!” I think they saw it on a bumper sticker somewhere. I figure it could make a nice retort for the nastier or more persistent type of proselytizer, especially the ones who don’t get Cthulu references.😉 CJ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/32 "2004-05-12T23:26:13Z")
**Siege** , the idea of Fred getting a big surprise “at the end of all things” as you put it, is one that brings a smile to my lips. My mother has a short poe, taped to her fridge that addresses that. \*Last night I dreamed Death came for me And Heaven’s gates swung wide. With kindly grace an angel came And ushered me inside. There to my astonishment Stood folks I’d known on Earth. Some I’d judged and labeled as ‘Unfit and little worth’. Indignant words rose to my lips But never were set free, For every face showed stunned surprise. No one expected me![/I} ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/33 "2004-05-12T23:26:33Z")
> [@LVgeogeek](#): > > The Phelps cronies showed up at the Las Vegas Academy high school at 630 this morning to protest. Unfortunately for the rest of us, what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas. Actually, I don’t even ask for that much geographic specificity. I’d be satisfied with any body of water, holding an oil drum full of Phelps heads. Yeah, that’s the ticket. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/34 "2004-05-12T23:27:36Z")
short _poem_ ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/35 "2004-05-13T19:30:59Z")
I’d just like to share something to make this all more amusing. We all know about Fred’s ‘godhatesfags’ website? I bring you… [http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/](http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/) Damn thing made me fall out of my chair laughing. And I’m really intrigued- what happened with good ol’ Fred on Stern? ---
**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/36 "2004-05-13T19:43:46Z")
I hereby officially rebuke the OP for blatant and indiscrimate emoticon abuse. ---
**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:** [May 13, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/37 "2004-05-13T19:47:37Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > I hereby officially rebuke the OP for blatant and indiscrimate emoticon abuse. **Chief Scott**? Izzat you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eyke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Eyke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyke)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/38 "2004-05-13T20:22:49Z")
As I mentioned in another post, we have our own Phred clone here by the name of Ron McCrae. Instead of ex-lawyer, ex-cop. Both know the law and know how to work it. McDepraved also did nasty stuff to his kids, but when Children & Youth took the kids away for alleged child abuse (some of it sexual), he sued and won! It’s a shame Satan has to be so mean as to dress up these spawns of Hell as “Christians” to recruit the weak of mind. The bad thing is for the sake of the Constitution and 1st Amendment rights, we have to allow these cretens of the deep their right to picket. \ ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876/39 "2004-05-14T20:34:02Z")
> [@Brutus](#): > > I hereby officially rebuke the OP for blatant and indiscrimate emoticon abuse. sorry… Oh… yesterday Howard Stern put the Phelps’s women hate spewing harpies (PW) up against a group of gay men (GM). The PW were bad mouthing the GM the whole time and the GM took it in stride of course. It was a trivia contest and the winning team would get 10 grand. Well , the GM team won and then the PW were yelling at them telling then they were going to hell for thier sinful lifestyle. And of course Howard was reaming the PW for thier viewpoint etc etc… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-phelps-now-appearing-in-las-vegas/243876.md?page=1)