Phelps did his deed for the Democrat party very well (and he ran for office several times himself as a Democrat).
He demonized both Christians and the opposition to the norming of homosexuality.
The pink journalists gave his cultish coven of family members far more press than they deserved.
Was he still protesting war dead after Bush left office, or was he just protesting wars when a Republican was in the White House like all good Democrats?
Fortunately our local leaders persuaded the mostly Christian and primarily Southern Baptist population, to just ignore the three or so people who “protested”, and not even the local radical atheist contingent, again totalling about three individual weirdos, were able to muster much media attention to their “event”.
Many people were quietly added to the TEA party column that day.
The Phelps family political operation is now widely understood to be a Democrat agitprop group, and unaffiliated with any form of Christianity.