# One of the sons who escaped from the Fred Phelps cult gives an inside view on the abusive nut

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**Post date:** [June 19, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-of-the-sons-who-escaped-from-the-fred-phelps-cult-gives-an-inside-view-on-the-abusive-nut/625617/21 "2012-06-19T18:13:00Z")

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I’ve got a video clip I taped way back, off the TV news, of the WBC picketing at a church in Kansas City. The folks there brought out some doughnuts and asked if they’d like some.

One older man(not Fred), asked, in a sneering voice, “Are those the ones with the AIDS virus?”. The reply was “I don’t _think_ so.”

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