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Maniac Fred Phelps and Devil-Spawn to Desecrate Soldier's Funeral
His church was bombed, and now he protests funerals of the war deadKansas preacher says he's coming to Idaho By CHUCK OXLEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOISE, Idaho -- A Kansas preacher and gay rights foe whose congregation is protesting military funerals around the country said he's coming to Idaho tomorrow to picket the memorial for an Idaho National Guard soldier killed in Iraq. Fred's website reposes under the charming name of www.Godhatesfags.com. The companion site is GodhatesAmerica.com, where Fred presents his theory that 9-11 was divine punishment for tolerating homosexuality. Among other things, it features a cartoon in which an American soldier is shown raping a little Iraqi boy. 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. Gee, why would anybody do such a thing to Fred's church, as opposed to his ass? "We're coming," Phelps said yesterday. as the weekly Westboro orgy moved to a climax.... 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. Fred and his gang went to Baghdad while Saddam was still in power to protest American foreign policy. The Saddamites were delighted to have them by all accounts. Phelps gained national notoriety in 1998 when he picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student beaten to death in Wyoming. Fred's website features a daily count of how many days Matt has been in Hell. Since then, Phelps said his church has been the target of hateful words and actions, including a bomb attack six years ago. tsk, tsk, such intolerance. Phelps' church has picketed the funerals of AIDS victims for more than a decade. These include signs saying such clever things as "Fag funeral" and "Fags burn in Hell" The gang also picketed Ronald Reagan's funeral on the grounds that Reagan had tolerated homosexuality. 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. May God cradle you in his loving arms, dear one. 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. I am all-American heathen, Fred. Now bite my ass till your dentures break. "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. Well, yes, our moral imperatives are those of the Enlightenment and they are beyond all reckoning of price. Caldwell Police Chief Bob Sobba said he cannot bar Phelps from going to the public funeral, which is scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Albertson College of Idaho in that city. The ACLU would probably defend Phelps if Sobba threw him out of town. Almost everyone else in the civilized world would defend Sobba. Incidentally, Fred's congregation is made up almost entirely of his immediate family. IIRC, he has 13 children, 9 of whom are lawyers, and close to 70 grandchildren. They all live on the same tract in a Topeka neighborhood, which they have closed off and turned into a kind of fortified compound. Several of the devil-spawn lawyers work for the Kansas Department of Corrections. "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. I respect his right to remain silent, forever. Idaho Air National Guard Lt. Tony Vincelli, acting as spokesman for French's family, said there were no plans to change the funeral arrangements. "In other words, fuck the old bastard and his devil-spawn congregation." 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." Wimp. We hope everyone kicks their asses. 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. Cowardice or a sly assertion of equivalence? I have been wondering how Fred gets the money for all this. The congregation numbers fewer than 100 people, almost all related. His mob is on the road almost all the time, often sending different groups to different cities on the same day. As I mentioned, they even travel outside the country when they find someone, like Saddam, who will have them. He says nothing about finance, merely asserting that God provides. Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2005-06-15 |
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