# In your face, Westboro BC! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2013, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377 "2013-03-19T18:12:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![esmeralda2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@esmeralda2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/esmeralda2)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/21 "2013-03-26T14:44:55Z")
I like it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/22 "2013-03-26T14:52:03Z")
Looks like hell froze over for the Phelps. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/23 "2013-03-26T16:23:44Z")
A thought just occurred to me, Fred’s gettin up there in years and is gettin closer to the inevitable. That means a funeral… ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/24 "2013-03-26T17:00:43Z")
Lord, that house is so pretty! I’d love it even if it was just a style choice. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/25 "2013-03-26T17:55:21Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > A thought just occurred to me, Fred’s gettin up there in years and is gettin closer to the inevitable. That means a funeral… Several folks have him in the DeathPool. He was born in 1929, so he’s worth a few points. But the amount wouldn’t matter, it would be getting something out of him when he kicks off. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/26 "2013-03-26T17:56:56Z")
_Snomosexuals_! I love it! ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/27 "2013-03-26T18:57:55Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Several folks have him in the DeathPool. He was born in 1929, so he’s worth a few points. But the amount wouldn’t matter, it would be getting something out of him when he kicks off. I was thinking in terms of a group effort at the funeral to give him a proper send off. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/28 "2013-04-10T18:57:40Z")
Looks like the snow has melted and they [have guests](http://imgur.com/gallery/hB1XPc1). I wonder if WBC has bricked up the windows on that side of the compound yet. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/29 "2013-04-10T20:11:34Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Looks like the snow has melted and they [have guests](http://imgur.com/gallery/hB1XPc1). > > I wonder if WBC has bricked up the windows on that side of the compound yet. That’s what the rack of speakers blasting _It’s Raining Men_ continuously is for. ---
**Author:** ![sidhechaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sidhechaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidhechaos)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/30 "2013-04-13T01:23:34Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I just drove by there earlier, about 7:20PM, on the way to the dog park. > > The house is on the east side of them, so it’s front door faces west, directly towards the WBC’s entrance. If you’ve never seen a picture of the WBC, it’s not a regular looking church, but was developed out of Fred’s house. A tall privacy fence surrounds the property, and the other houses that belong to family members are dotted along it. There’s a pool in there too, which they once tried to get classified as a part of the church(for baptisms you know) so it wouldn’t be taxable. > > The rainbow house is not large, but rather attractive, and not as garish as one might expect. If they put up a large flag pole with a rainbow flag, that would just be a perfect accompaniement to the WBC flag pole, which has a city of Topeka flag flying above a US flag, both upside down of course. why go to dog park? let your dog crap on phelps yard as for pool, oooo I wonder if someone could rig a launcher of some type in a pick up truck and launch interesting things into that pool from the street. ---
**Author:** ![sidhechaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sidhechaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidhechaos)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/31 "2013-04-13T01:26:53Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > And the hits just keep coming in. > > [It snowed in Westboro](http://imgur.com/gallery/qoV9P7U) to bad it didn’t rain blood or dead skunks or something on JUST the westboro compound (hmmm wonder what it cost to rent a glider and get a plane to give it a start up tow in the right direction…) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/32 "2013-04-13T23:24:58Z")
I hope the turn it into a Fabulous bed and breakfast, I would sooo stop there. ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/33 "2013-04-14T01:07:19Z")
Are there other Baptist churches in the area? What do they think of the Westboro clan? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/34 "2013-04-14T02:11:18Z")
There’s a ton of Baptist churches here in Topeka, and they are embarassed that Phred calls his church Baptist. The WBC used to identify with a group called the Primitive Baptists, don’t know if they still do. As I understand it, most Baptist denominations are rather congregationalist. By that I mean they have larger groups and formal denominations, but individual congregations are not so much under the thumb, or beholden to. their national group, as, say, Roman Catholics would be. One New Year’s Eve I saw the WBC picketing First Southern Baptist! But it was on a main street, with lots of traffic that evening. The WBC are equal opportunity picketers here in Topeka, but most of their work is done on main streets, the better to be seen. Very seldom do you see them at small neighborhood congregations. Although I did hear once they got run out of the Oakland neighborhood when they picketed Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic church. My own church, Grace Episcopal Cathedral, is on a street lined with a number of churches, with various service times. Within a one mile stretch they can hit Catholics, Episcopalians, Lutherans(ELCA and LC\_MS), another Catholic church one block over, and one non-denominational. They’ll picket one and move to the next, no muss, no fuss. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/35 "2013-04-14T17:17:16Z")
And they hit us this morning! Nine adults and two kids on the other side of 8th street. Some of our folks were parked on that side, and when they got out of their cars the WBC was yelling at them, but I couldn’t hear what they yelled. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/36 "2013-04-14T18:06:00Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper (Freddie’s grandaughters) having left their family’s cult after discussions via Twitter with > Jewlicious’s David Abitbol. I poked around a little and didn’t see it, but do you know if there’s a publicized record of their correspondence anywhere? I find stories like this (“sworn enemies,” so to speak, coming to reconcile through dialogue) really intriguing. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2013, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377/37 "2013-06-20T17:44:18Z")
While counter-protests are are a standard response to WBC’s nonsense, sometimes you have to recognize an outstanding effort. [Westboro Church Protesters Confronted By Zombies](http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/westboro-church-protesters-confronted-by-zombies/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-your-face-westboro-bc/653377.md?page=1)