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Fred Phelps may be dying, but the LGBT community should let him go quietly
A few years ago I asked Judy Shepard how she felt about Fred Phelps, the founder of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church which had picketed the funeral of her son Matthew in what was to become the seminal event that put Westboro into the national spotlight. Her answer surprised me. “Oh we love Freddy,” she replied. “If it wasn’t for him there would be no Matthew Shepard.” Judy’s answer to my question illustrates the truth about Fred Phelps…
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Report: Fred Phelps, founder of Westboro Baptist Church, near death
TOPEKA, Kan. — Anti-gay extremist Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church and the “Gods Hate Fags” fundamentalist movement, is near death in a local hospice, according to a Facebook post Saturday night by his son Nathan Phelps.
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Judge upholds Mo. law limiting time, distance of funeral protests
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A federal judge has upheld a Missouri law requiring protesters to stay at least a football-field length away from funeral sites, beginning an hour before they start until an hour after the services end.
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Students form human wall to block Westboro Baptist protest at Mizzou
COLUMBIA, Mo. – Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, home of the anti-gay extremists behind the “Gods Hate Fags” and “God hates the World” fundamentalist movement, on Saturday protested the coming out of Missouri football player Michael Sam outside Mizzou Arena on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.
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Westboro Baptist Church: Scotland’s ‘fag marriage’ caused deadly helicopter crash
GLASGOW, Scotland — The U.S.-based Westboro Baptist Church, home of anti-gay extremists famous for their “Gods Hate Fags” demonstrations, blamed a deadly helicopter crash in Glasgow on Saturday on the country’s recent advancement of a same-sex marriage bill.
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Equality House hosts ‘Drag Down Bigotry’ show in Westboro neighborhood
TOPEKA, Kan. — The Westboro Baptist Church, home of the “God hates Fags” movement, found itself with ringside seats to drag show on Saturday, organized by its neighbor, the rainbow painted Equality House.
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Charges likely for Satanists who performed ritual at grave of Westboro founder’s mother
MERIDIAN, Miss. — Police in Meridian, Miss., say they plan to file charges against a group of self-described Satanists for performing a same-sex ritual at the grave site of the mother of Westboro Baptist church’s founder Fred Phelps.
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Satanists perform gay ritual at grave site of Westboro Baptist founder’s mother
MERIDIAN, Miss. — A group of self-described Satanists say they’ve given the controversial, anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church a taste of its own medicine by performing a same-sex ritual at the grave site of the mother of the church’s founder. Members of the New York-based the Satanist Temple performed what its spokesman describes as a “pink […]
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Westboro Baptist Church to picket ‘fag enabling’ boy band One Direction
The Westboro Baptist Church, home of the anti-gay extremists behind the “Gods Hate Fags” and “God hates…” everything else, say they will picket an upcoming concert of fag-enabling” boy band, One Direction.
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Lesbian couple weds at ‘Equality House’ across from Westboro Baptist Church
TOPEKA, Kan. — A lesbian couple from Arkansas married Saturday on the front lawn of the Equality House in Tokepa, Kan., across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church, home of the “God hates fags” activist group.