Fred Phelps and Westboro Church

[gadgetlady 4]

Surely someone just clicked the wrong radio. Surely.....

I've done that before on other threads, and haven't found a way to change my vote. Is there? Anyway, I hope so, too, but you never know.

[twy_marie 0]

:faint:OK, unfortunately... I live in Topeka, KS. Actually, I live about 7 blocks from the twisted, F*&%ed up little Westboro Phelps "compound".... AND my husband is serving his second tour in Iraq right now. I have to pass by these sick fu&*ers everyday on my way to work... or in the evening when my children and I go out. THey hold up very disturbing image signs with stick figures in very graphic positions and they have very young children holding them up! Imagine explaining to your children why these bastards have signs thanking God for the war that took their Daddy away from them? UGH! These people are the lowest of the low.... they are a very big blight on Topeka... and no, Topeka DOES NOT support them. They are a pimple on our ass! I wish they knew what it was like to live in a country that had no right to free speech, or right to believe in whatever fu*$ed up version of religion that they are into. I wish they knew what it was like to have to fight for their country or worry about a loved one that is..... Mostly, I just wish they would move to another country if they think this one is so damn bad. I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN! AND I AM PROUD TO BE A SOLDIER'S WIFE! I also have to say that they shame the rest of us.... just another warped cult that gives the rest of us normal, sane people a bad name. (OH, AND they all look inbread too... LOL)

Sorry for the tangent... all this just really makes me want to vomit.... I'll get off my soapbox now.

[green 6]

Phelps and his band of sickos hate Canada (an ungodly country ) because same sex marriage is legal up here and they have been blocked from coming north of the border in order to protest this under our legislation. You see, freedom of speech up here stops when it consists of fomenting hatred against other people.

They used to have a bitch page about Canada on their home website which was pretty funny. I don't know whether it is still there.

[want_so_bad 0]

i read an article about these people. hats off to them for standing up and doing something good and decent! after reading the article i wished i lived somewhere i could join them. i would stand up in a hearbeat to protect the families!

He and his followers are sick and demented. I can't believe how much hate one person can have. Just amazing.

A friend of mine belongs to a group that when there is a funeral in her area for a military person she is one of the people that goes and creates a human barrier between the family and Phelps. She was also explaining how cool it is to have a bunch of retired military folks with super loud Harley's. They go to the funerals too and they surround the Phelps people with their loud harley's and rev up their engines to drown out the noise of the demented ones so the family can't hear them.

She showed me some photos of this. These rough and tough, spooky looking Harley guys with tattoos, odd haircuts, etc., they are just glaring at the Phelps idiots daring them to try and get by them. HA! Then when the Phelps people start screaming at the grieving family the bikes become louder and louder until that is all you can hear.

It's sad that this is necessary.

[cj_ole 0]

My uncle was a gay man who served in the Navy. He fought for this country as did many other gay men and women. Anyone who would dare tell me that he was a bad man or going to hell because of his sexual orientation better come out ready for a fight, cuz Im telling you, I'd kill them. Unfortunately, he was from a time before any of this was "socially acceptable". It was something we all knew, we just never said it out loud. Aren't you curious just how many good men and women there were who fought for this country well before they lifted the ban on homo-sexuals?

CJ

[DerickM 1]

Where is the option to say he is wrong and it is wrong to protest funerals?

[AmberWaves 0]

I think that Fred Phelps and his cronies are proof that evil walks this earth. The "truth" they spew is completely nauseating and terrible. If there's a hell, they have a special place all ready for them.

[SlimTarnishedDiva 1]

Where is the option to say he is wrong and it is wrong to protest funerals?

Please forgive me<wg> I thought that was implied with choice 1...

The first one we took as a mistake??..the second one hmmm...

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Wow.... there are TWO of them here.

Freaky.

[j_war06 0]

I just want to say...that I love my gays!! And the only thing they are responsible for is accepting me into their community (although Im a very straight girl) and loving me NO MATTER WHAT! And picketing funerals is just immature, like seriously! How is THAT going to bring the deceased back to life?

And last time I checked there are lots of gays in the military (confidential information because they arent supposed to be there) and does that mean that they are committing suicide or killing their fellow soldiers? This man REALLY needs to see a therapist before someone kills him or he kills or seriously injures someone!