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Extreme Preacher Protests Soldier's Funerals

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Phelps plans to protest soldier's funeral By CHUCK OXLEY Associated Press writer BOISE, Idaho -- A Kansas preacher and gay rights foe whose congregation is protesting military funerals around the country said he's coming to Idaho on today to picket the memorial for an Idaho National Guard soldier killed in Iraq. A flier on the Web site of Pastor Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church claims God killed Cpl. Carrie French with an improvised explosive device in retaliation against the United States for a bombing at Phelps' church six years ago. "We're coming," Phelps said Monday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. Westboro Baptist either has protested or is planning protests of other public funerals of soldiers from Michigan, Alabama, Minnesota, Virginia and Colorado. A protest is planned for July 11 at Dover Air Force Base, the military base where war dead are transported before being sent on to their home states. Phelps gained national notoriety in 1998 when he picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student beaten to death in Wyoming. Since then, Phelps said his church has been the target of hateful words and actions, including a bomb attack six years ago. Phelps' church has picketed the funerals of AIDS victims for more than a decade. French, 19, was a Caldwell High School graduate and varsity cheerleader. She was killed June 5 in the northern city of Kirkuk. French served as an ammunition specialist with the 116th Brigade Combat Team's 145th Support Battalion. Phelps said the fact that French led an all-American life gives him all the more reason to picket her final public tribute. "An all-American girl from a society of all-American heretics," he said. "Our attitude toward what's happening with the war is the Lord is punishing this evil nation for abandoning all moral imperatives that are worth a dime," Phelps said. Caldwell Police Chief Bob Sobba said he cannot bar Phelps from going to the public funeral, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Albertson College of Idaho in that city. "While we respect Mr. Phelps' right to protest, we would hope that he would respect the family and friends of this young person by not disrupting the memorial," Sobba said. Idaho Air National Guard Lt. Tony Vincelli, acting as spokesman for French's family, said there were no plans to change the funeral arrangements. The Rev. Brian Fischer, pastor of Boise's Community Church of the Valley, and himself a past target of protest by the Westboro Baptist Church, decried Phelps' plan. "What Phelps is doing is a reprehensible thing, to take a funeral and turn it into a photo op for his hate cause," Fischer said. "We hope everyone will ignore Phelps' group." In 2003, Phelps demanded that he be allowed to erect an anti-gay monument in a Boise public park. To avoid a lawsuit from his group, city officials voted in 2004 that a Ten Commandments monument be moved out of the park to a private setting.

The man was interviewed on a talk radio show I listened to last night, and his views were so ridiculous and so insane I just had to post the info on this madman here on TA. As listened from the show, this Fred Phelps states that he hopes every American soldier fighting in Iraq will be sent home in a body bag and that "the only thing worse than fags, are 'fag enablers,' who lift up the fags and will burn in Hell worse than the fags." You can find more on Phelps' homophobic and fanaticism views on http://www.godhatesfags.com

If I was him I could think of safer places to protest than at the funeral of a soldier where there is likely to be shit loads of other soldiers present!

O.I.A

(Only In America)

If he protested a funeral of a family member of mine i would end him.

What's scarier this man's exitence or the fact that millions of Americans aren't to far from following similar preachers. I feel like in the future this country is going to just rip my heart out all because of these f'n right-wing Christians.

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Originally posted by jonSun If he protested a funeral of a family member of mine i would end him.

Meto I and I really actually do mean that, I would kill him. Seriously.

Well he's a Calvinist, what do you expect?

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Originally posted by kush paintings What's scarier this man's exitence or the fact that millions of Americans aren't to far from following similar preachers. I feel like in the future this country is going to just rip my heart out all because of these f'n right-wing Christians.

yeah i am so with u. the first americans came here to escape prosecution and now look where all this country is headed towards. this country is starting to suck to live.

Sorry, but protesting anything military isn't 'right-wing' at all...

This guy is just short a few bricks from a full load...
i.e.-->

yeah, i'd have to agree.. This guy is beyond right-wing, he's as extremist as they get..

I woke up this morning and thought hey why not get depressed. Here are a number of photos from this guy's site, and let me tell you these people really have a point on some issues.




Fags are Lawless: Well, homosexuals are dominant in our penetentry system.


Breakfast for the typical Fag: Toast with poop and Poopios cereal.


This is just so wrong, I can't even play along with it. But, she does have a point with the fags doom nations, ancient Greece anyone?


Look carefully at the signs. Now do a double-take. If there is a hell, sure homosexuals will be there , but boy will they have some interesting company.

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Originally posted by kush paintings

GOD isn't very nice, seems very anrgy.....

Wow, I don't even come across ppl like this in TX. Then again, I am in Austin. That's the most blatant kind of discrimination I've seen in a while.

i saw something pretty offensive like yesterday i was coming back from chicago and there on the highway a car had a nazis flag on its antenna. ignorant ppl gosh they are just not ok

I have lived in the suburbs of Chicago all of my life, and I think you would be surprised at some of the stuff that goes down here. Up until recently there was a golf club by me that didn't allow Blacks to join. In the same town, a KKK rally was held just 3 years ago. Oh and did I mention there was a sizeable Jewish population is surrounding suburbs.

Anyways back to Douchey McDouche. This Fred Phelps guy seemed like a good guy, a role model if you will. So, in hopes of of educating myself on such a great man, I did a little googling.

Class act (from his life timeline):
Nov 1973: Files a $50,000,000 suit against Sears Roebuck, Inc., because the $186 television they purchased on layaway and paid off early would not be ready until Christmas (exactly as specified in the contract Phelps signed.)
1979: The Kansas Supreme Court disbars Fred Phelps, declaring in part that he had "little regard for the ethics of his profession."

This really just is sick...

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At the funeral of gay murder victim Matthew Shepard, [The Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelp's church] held up signs reading "No Fags in Heaven" and "God Hates Fags." According to their Web site, they have staged "20,000" protests across the nation and around the world in the last decade.

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"It's NOT OK to be gay. It will damn the soul, destroy the life, and doom any nation that tolerates such evil. God Hates Fags is a profound theological statement, which America needs more than it needs oxygen or bread."

Now, the scary part... people actually prescribe to these values.

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But don't think that the Phelpseseseses' were the only ones in support of the repeal, oh no. Many other Topekans were also in favor of homo-gay discrimination, although most say they are absolutely in no way anything like Fred Phelps...they're simply "pro family."

Source

But, get this. He was spotted at a gay pride march.

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