Grrrrrr! I just can’t stand it! The ugliness of the words the Phelp’s clan uses I thought I was used to. I just got called “church tramp” for the millionth time when I entered my church yesterday morning. But every time I think I’ve heard it all from them they come up with fliers like Library picketing and Letter to Commissioners .
In “Letter” they argue that since gays already have the best jobs, housing, and entertainment, and have twice the disposable income of heterosexuals, :rolleyes: they don’t deserve to be included in a proposed change to Topeka’s anti-discrimination ordinance. Said change would include orientation, along with race, religion, and so on, as things that people can’t be discriminated against when it comes to jobs or housing.
“Library” means that I will have one more place to see them, as I work at the library, although I don’t work for it. (I’m a baker in the cafe, which is a seperate business) If you go to www.cjonline.com (a link to our city newspaper) you can find the article in larger print. I know the woman in question. She’s a fine person, who I also know from the local activist scene. She has been active in PFLAG and we are both in the Equal Justice Coalition. She persuaded me(on her own time, not her jobs) to get more involved. I’ve even gone door-to-door now helping gather signatures in support of the proposed ordinance change.
I think it’s wussy of the library to not put out the names of who “accused” her on the job, but let her name go out in “Library”
Snel frocky! Spit! Felgergarb! Frelling idiots! I try to be a Christian and I don’t want to blame the Phelp’s for my failings, but geez, they make it so hard to follow the command “You must forgive, as God has forgiven you.”(Colossians 3:12-14)
Pant, pant, take a deep breath Baker . I should remember this letter A Letter of Love I’d really like to meet the guy who wrote it, but Australia is a long trip.
Thanks for letting me vent. Sometimes it just helps to purge it out.
That Phelps is some sort of sociopath (I have a “gift” for understanding how people think. He eludes me. He is my Magneto) is no underestimation. A man who devotes his life to, among other things, driving around the country to picket against people he doesn’t know in the hot sun is nobody’s definition of sane.
Dio, I wouldn’t put it so simply. I think the man has issues that would baffle any psychiatrist. In addition to this unnatural (heh) hate for anything not heterosexual and agreeing with his particular flavor of “Christianity”, Phelps has also been accused by more than one of his children of child abuse something fierce. Add those to his fervent belief that his message is “The Gospel Truth” and that he takes unnervingly personal issue with anyone who disagrees with him in church and you have the makings of a massive case of cardiac arrest at some point in the near future. This is a guy who wouldn’t relax and enjoy life if he got put on laughing gas for a week.
Dude! Gays have twice the disposable income as straight people?* Where can I sign up? AND I’m a Jew! So, that’s like, four times what I’d be making if I were a shiksa breeder. Sweeeet.
*I’m guessing their “logic” is that gay people don’t have kids, and thus have more spending money. I don’t really think I need to waste time discussing how flawed that argument is.
The story of “church tramp” or, alternatively, “church whore” comes from almost ten years ago when they were agressively picketing an Episcopal church here in Topeka. That congregation decided to pursue an injunction to keep them across the street just before and just after services. Meanwhile they made their own signs and “witnessed” the true meaning of the Gospel, with phrases like “Topekans against Hate” and “God Loves You” and “Jesus Loves Everyone”. All like minded people were invited to help them hold their signs, but there were rules. We could not talk to the Phelps, make gestures in their direction, or be rude to them in any way. So at the time I was a member of a Lutheran congregation, but before my own services started I went over to St. David’s and helped them hold their signs on Sunday(and some other times as well). The Phelps were also picketing my own church and would see me at both places. So they took to calling me church tramp/whore “because I couldn’t decide where to do my spiritual fornicating.” the Phelp’s have long memories, and even though that congregation got their injunction, they still see me around. I eventually became an Episcopalian, although at a different congregation in town, and that’s where they were on Sunday.
BTW, if you look at my email address, the first three letters, chw, stand for “crop headed whore”, which is what Fred used to call us women that cut our hair. He believes that it’s unBiblical for a woman to cut her hair.
I hate that. I have long long hair that only gets small trims twice a year, and I’m sure Phelps would love it. (grr) So I react by wanting to, say, shave my head. But I like my hair more than I like offending people like that. I guess I’ll just have to go find some girls to kiss or something.
“Anybody who goes to the funeral of a little boy, and his parents are looking at a big placard Fred Phelps puts up saying ‘Matt is in hell,’ is either mean as the devil or a nut case. Either way, he doesn’t represent anybody credible.” – Jerry Falwell
I mean, if Jerry Falwell is calling you hateful… :eek:
Let’s not forget that Phelps’s assholes picketted in support of Majorie Knoller, whose dog killed lesbian Dianne Whipple. That’s the same Knoller who was boinking the murderous dog!
