Aren’t harrassing telephone calls illegal?
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I have no words.
It says something in the Bible about by their fruit shall they be known. Fred Phelps has the most evil ‘fruit’ since Pol Pot. It is a shame that he cannot be incarserated as dangerously insane, surely he is a danger to others if not to himself.
Are there any organisations that support him or his “church” they should be boycotted by all who would oppose Phelps.
Ah, the Phelps clan. Where the phrase “Your all gay” has not the slightest whiff of irony.
Sweet merciful Christ. I’m an atheist, but I do agree with most of the things Jesus said. And I’m pretty sure he didn’t say anything about hating fags. But that’s old territory.
Where the fuck does this guy get off protesting any funeral in the first place? What’s more frightening is the fact that this human filth has enough money to travel around and do this kind of thing.
One other thing I don’t get: The police in many areas have been known to deploy riot control measures on peaceful protests. Why can’t they throw a tear-gas grenade at these wastes of skin?
That’s the way I read it.
There are a few things worth going to jail over. Beating the dogshit out of these assholes would be one. Of course after the dogshit was beaten out of them, there would be nothing left but a picket sign.
(Note to Mods: I am NOT advocating anybody go out and beat the dogshit out of these assholes, just saying that I, personally, would enjoy it.)
Why bother with an island, the middle of the ocian without a boat would be fine. Though I fear if Satan has any power he would save them, seeing as they are his greatest supporters.
What? Did the Fred Phelps crew just pull a name out of a hat or what?
Sigh
People like that make me embarrassed to be, well, the same species.
Under any other circumstances (read: not funeral), I would wrangle up all my gay friends and just start making out and groping in front of their pickit lines. I know, I know. It wouldn’t accomplish much, but it would be funny.
I’ll give her the heads up to contact an attorney. She was intially upset (hello? who wouldn’t be when they are told, “Your husband who just had his face blown off was a fag who is burning in hell!”?), but she is fine now. She thinks they are fucking crazy.
Hell, they’re an embarrassment to carbon based life forms.
How about the Bikini atoll?
If you want to be really, truly horrified, read about how he treated his own family. Phelps is a sadist of the first water. He’s not a man of God, not even in his own mind. He’s merely interested in hurting other people, as much and as often as possible. Now that most of his kids are too old to beat on, he’s branched out to causing as much harm as he can to random strangers. I honestly don’t think Phelps cares about homosexuals one way or the other. He’s just identified them as a minority that is still socially vulnerable, and attacks them viciously and constantly, just because he gets a thrill out of it. A greiving widow is like candy to this sick fuck. I just hope he finally crosses a line someday and gives the authorities the excuse they need to crush him like the cockroach he is.
Allow me to explain.
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Freddie and his “church” (aka his abused family) believe that homosexuality is a scourge that brings the wrath of God onto our society (well, our world I suppose). In locking on to this view, they ignore pretty much 99% of the Bible, especially what’s considered the “important” stuff. You know, love your neighbors as yourselves, don’t take the Lord’s name in vain, that kind of filler that’s in the few parts of the Bible not dealing with homosexuality.
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They think homosexuality needs to be stopped at all costs. To achieve this goal, they’ll do whatever it takes. And what they mainly need is publicity, hence:
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They come up with a new way to outrage people about daily to get their names in the papers and their cause discussed on the internets. This is the one thing they’re very very good at. 182 threads here at the Dope mention Phelps in some capacity, many of which are pittings of him specifically. This won’t be the first soldier whose funeral they’ve protested. In fact I’m surprised by how many people in this thread are surprised to head about this. It happens so often that I figured everyone would be familiar with the nut by now.
They’ll do whatever it takes to get attention and push their agenda. I run a religion blog and people send me links to articles about him once in a while, but I won’t publish them. He’s a troll, plain and simple, and I won’t play along and help him out.
Hideous. No need to apologize for your anger. I’m incensed just reading this, and I don’t know him from Adam.
I just cannot believe the sadistic cruelty of someone who would call up a pregnant widow and tell her such a vile thing.
I hope she is screening her calls, and I would be very curious to see if the Phelps crowd actually shows up.
In any event, please offer her my condolences and tell her she’s not alone.
Pat Robertson considers him to be a hateful bigot. Now that says something.
Wikipedia has a good article that explains what these losers are up to.
Phelps is apparently upset about a bomb that went off on his property in 1995. In his twisted little mind, the bombs (IEDs) in Iraq are God’s vengeance for this deed.
Words fail me. My deepest sympathy to you, your friend, and her family.
There is obviously only one place for Mr. Phelps and the diseased-brain scum of his ilk:
prison. Send them all to different prisons. And give them each a good primping and preening beforehand.
Slacker, this is the first I’ve heard of him protesting soldiers’ funerals. And if he thinks doing this is going to help his cause, it ain’t working (at least on me). If anything, it only makes him out to appear even more batshit crazy than before.
I’m playing stereotypes here, but I think that your ordinary fag hater would likely honor a red-blooded soldier who died in some war. For Phred to show up and call him a fag just doesn’t seem like it would play to the right audience.*
I can’t imagine him gathering much support from these tactics.
*Yes, I know that it’s possible for gays to both be in the military and honor those in the military, as well as be as red-blooded as the next guy. I was only using stereotypes to press a point, not to slight gays in any fashion.
I’m a little surprised too. I read the thread title and knew immediately that it had to be about Phred.
Someone should point out to Fred that right after Canada made gay marriage legal, there was a plan crash and God allowed all 309 Canadian “fags” to escape the burning plane!
That ought to put a bug up his ass.