That’s one option. The other is that they are batshit insane religious fanatics who believe they are doing God’s work. Trolls or insane? It’s 50/50 to me.
Actually, Fred is extraordinarily violent, according to those kids of his who have managed to escape his cult. He just prefers to confine his violence to his wife and kids.
Which is one reason we don’t generally let people in advanced states of grief determine social policy for the nation as a whole.
More probably because those brainwashed nutjobs are his children and grandchildren. He’s the one who’s brainwashed them, and (except for the few who’ve married into his family) they’ve never known anything else. And as Lemur866 points out, a large part of his “church”'s activities are intended to ensure that they don’t ever get to know anything else.
With any luck, he will arrive at the pearly gates to find Jesus, Matthew Shepherd and all the others his group has protested telling him that he’s not welcome in Heaven.
Even if this is only the illusion of his dying brain cells.
I can’t believe that shitbag Phelps is still able to do this. I can’t understand how our society allows it. I wish a someone from one of the funerals would beat this guy within an inch of his life, then when tried, claim that he was overcome with grief. I think Phelps is near the point that any jury would refuse to convict his assailant.
Sorry, I thought you were arguing in favor of limiting the Phelps’s ability to protest in public. If you were just pointing out that families of dead children are easy to emotionally upset, then I don’t have any argument with that.
Sounds like one of those murder stories where they most hated guy in town is killed, yet mysteriously no one around saw anything happen.
“So Mr. Phelps was beaten, stabbed, punched, and kicked to death twelve feet from all 218 of you. Did anyone see who did it?”
“Nope.”
“Not me.”
“I was looking over there.”
“Didn’t hear a thing.”
“A wizard did it.”
Speaking as a Christian, I don’t believe the god he professes to follow is the same God I follow. Since I can’t go and counter protest or minister to him, the best I can do is pray for his soul.
I made no comment about it but being a person who is not emotionally upset (at least not like those who just lost their daughter) I see no problem keeping protesters away from a gravesite while a burial is occurring.