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Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred “Thank god for dead soldiers” Phelps dead at 84

Anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps has died.

Westboro Baptist Church gained national notoriety in 1998 after members picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was beaten to death outside Laramie, Wyo.

From  KSN:

The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., who founded a Kansas church widely known for its protests at military funerals and anti-gay sentiments, has died according to his son Tim Phelps.

Phelps, 84, was being cared for in a Shawnee County facility, Westboro Baptist Church spokesman Steve Drain said Sunday.

Members of the Westboro church, based in Topeka, frequently protest at funerals of soldiers with signs containing messages such as “Thank God for dead soldiers,” and “Thank God for 9/11,” claiming the deaths are God’s punishment for American immorality and tolerance of homosexuality and abortion.

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Westboro Baptist Church: We don’t need Fred Phelps to hate

“The church of the Lord Jesus Christ does not rise or fall with any man – in fact, the Lord doesn’t need ANY of us.

“This is still a nation and world awash in sin. We will still warn you of this condition, out of our love and fear of the Lord, and out of our love for our neighbors.

“Here is the message of Westboro Baptist Church: God still hates fags, God still hates fag enablers and any nation that embraces that sin as an ‘innocent’ lifestyle can expect to incur the wrath of God. Repent or Perish.” – Westboro Baptist Church, in a statement posted to their website.

(h/t JMG)

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Fred Phelps, founder of anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, reported near death

From LGBTQ Nation: Anti-gay extremist Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church and the “Gods Hate Fags” fundamentalist movement, is apparently near death in a local hospice, according to a Facebook post Saturday night by his son Nathan Phelps.
The younger Phelps, who left the church and his family’s compound in 1976 when he was 18-years-old, writes:
“I’ve learned that my father, Fred Phelps, Sr., pastor of the “God Hates Fags” Westboro Baptist Church, was ex-communicated from the “church” back in August of 2013. He is now on the edge of death at Midland Hospice house in Topeka, Kansas.
I’m not sure how I feel about this. Terribly ironic that his devotion to his god ends this way. Destroyed by the monster he made.
I feel sad for all the hurt he’s caused so many. I feel sad for those who will lose the grandfather and father they loved. And I’m bitterly angry that my family is blocking the family members who left from seeing him, and saying their good-byes.”
The group came into the national spotlight in 1998, when it picketed at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured near Laramie, Wyo., in October 1998, then tied to a fence and left to die.
 Since that time, the group has become famous for anti-gay protests all over the country, including picketing the funerals of fallen US soldiers.
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Vince Gill confronts Westboro Baptist Church – “I wanted to see what hate looks like”

If nothing else, you can say that Westboro Baptist Church members are equal opportunity bigots when it comes to harassing not only LGBT leaders and allies, but entertainers as well.

WBC’s latest target? Veteran country singer Vince Gill, who has drawn the ire of the extended Phelps clan – not for promoting sinful homosexuality but for having the NERVE to have divorced his first wife to marry Christian pop singer Amy Grant.

From Queerty:

As the haters congregated to protest Gill’s concert in Kansas City Sunday night, the entertainer strolled outside, as he put it, ” to see what hate looks life.”

Gill also had a pressing question he needed answered.

“Don’t you know that you fuckers are lucky that you don’t have a sign that says something about my wife?,” he asked.

“Don’t you know that divorce plus remarriage equals adultery?” a woman responded. “Jesus Christ said that.”

“Did he?” Gill replied. “You know what else he said? He said a lot of stuff about forgiveness, about grace. You guys don’t have any of that.”

Gill then gets in a final zinger.

“Are any of you guys Phelpses?” he demanded. “Or are you guys like the C team?” Snap!

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Westboro Baptist Church calls 5 year old selling lemonade a “fag enabler”

I recently posted about the fabulous Jaden Sink who sold lemonade across the street from the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, raising money for Planting Peace.

Well, the Westboro Baptist Church has officially responded to the threat of a five-year-old girl’s lemonade stand. Their message?

“Fags and enablers all burn in hell. Lemonade won’t cool any tongues.”

Isn’t that sweet?

#SinkingToNewLows

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Five year old sells lemonade for peace across the street from Westboro Baptist Church

Five-year-old Jayden Sink, of Kansas City, decided to set up a stand selling pink lemonade at The Equality House on Friday afternoon.

The Equality House is a rainbow-colored building directly across the street from Westboro Baptist Church – yeah, the icky ugly bigots who picket US soldiers funerals. The house, which was painted the colors of the pride flag in March, was bought by Aaron Jackson, one of the founders of Planting Peace, a multi-pronged nonprofit set up in 2004 and aimed at spreading goodwill and equality around the globe.

So she painted a banner for the event reading, “Pink Lemonade for Peace: $1 Suggested Donation.” She put the stand in the grass and waited. But the waiting didn’t take long. Supporters came in by the droves and $1 turned into hundreds of dollars.

Now, Westboro didn’t sit idly by. They heckled the little girl, they shouted “bastards” at soldiers who arrived on their motorcycles to buy lemonade, they called the cops trying to shut her down. It only fed the event.

She not only raised $400 during the day on Friday, but she has also collected over $1000 with an online campaign set up through Crowd Rise. Some people donated as little as $10 and as much as $230.

The money she raised was donated to Planting Peace so she could help Planting Peace promote a more peaceful world.”

“Jayden represents the natural humanity we are born with,” Davis Hammet, Director of Operations at Planting Peace, added. “We come into this world compassionate, caring beings and only become hateful if we are taught to be.”

I absolutely concur. Congratulations Jayden for being who you are and inspiring so many.

Thanks TRR reader Rayme for the tip!
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From God’s gentle people to the NBA – “God Still H8s Fags”

From Westboro Baptist Church: “In light of NBA veteran Jason Collins becoming the first active professional athlete who is openly homosexual, Westboro Baptist Church’s Twitter account @WBCSays said Tuesday it will picket outside Chesapeake Energy Arena for the Rockets and Thunder Game 5 first-round playoff matchup.”

Never let it be said that the idiots from Westboro Baptist Church let an opportunity to let their bigoted voice be heard…

Sad.  Just sad.

(via JoeMyGod)