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Fred Phelps to Protest Soldier's Funeral
Seatlle Post-Intelligencer (AP) ^ | June 14, 2005 | Hatman

Posted on 06/15/2005 6:30:56 AM PDT by Hatman

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To: Hatman

Phelps may be suprised where his soul ends up.


41 posted on 06/15/2005 7:08:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek (I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
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To: robowombat
I agree. It would make a whole lot more sense if this guy were an agent provacateur.

If some pro-gay-agenda activists want to get the ball rolling, they arrange for a group of students to perform that play about Phelps. I guess he comes withn the scripts and media kit, for you can count on him and his band of hateful loonies to show up and make a lot of noise. Then the local professors, teachers, and media-cracy can lecture us all about how Christians need to stop hating gays and embrace all aspects of the gay lifestyle.

If Phelps isn't an agent provacateur, he should be. He could get paid well by leftist kingmakers for the work he is doing.

42 posted on 06/15/2005 7:10:37 AM PDT by Montfort (President George Allen)
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To: faloi
This bozo didn't demand that the ten commandments be moved. He wanted to erect a very distasteful and enflaming monument in Boise because he said that since the ten commandments were there, he should be able to have one himself.

The City Council voted to remove the ten commandments to avoid the resulting legal fight. Many people here were and are mad at the city council because we all felt that they should have fought this bozo and left the ten commandments where they were. In essence, many felt that the city council wimped out and was manipulated by this person to get rid of the ten commandments.

As to this guy disrupting this good girl's funeral...it will not fly here very well at all. People at the funeral will be respectful and hold their peace out of respect for Carrie...but there is no love lost for the likes of this hatemonger.

People here look dimly on homsexuality in general, but they do not like being portrayed by someone so obviously unChristian as this individual and his group. We prefer to handle it our own way and do not need or seek his help. What he plans for Carrie's funeral is just the latest sick example of why. I hope the guy steps over the line in some small way so the Caldwell police can do their duty and arrest him for whatever infraction he commits.

I personaly believe he is a leftist agent provocateur.

43 posted on 06/15/2005 7:13:51 AM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: AgThorn
This guy has nothing to do with Christianity, irrespective of what he says. Christ said, "by their Fruit ye shall know them", one need look no further than that.
44 posted on 06/15/2005 7:17:14 AM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Hatman
Coming to Idaho - hum mm - I would suggest a one way ticket cause them boys in Idaho take our soldiers very seriously and hold them dear to the hearts -

Please somebody grab this turd and wipe the sidewalk with him.

It is time to give airport security spray to deal with this type of roach when he crawls off the plane.

My suggestion is that we all protest this dips church let's show up and serve him a dose of his disrespectful BS.

Speaking of God's involvement it is obvious that he called in sick on the day the brains were passed out.
45 posted on 06/15/2005 7:17:30 AM PDT by kentj
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To: rockchalkjayhawk
I've seen the rev protesting a prayer breakfast. Why? Who knows, the signs showed stick figures sodomizing each other.

This guy and the folks are real wack jobs. He thinks that he and his followers are the only true Christians, however, I can truly say that it is only the grace that Christ has given me that has prevented me from jumping the curb and driving over their rude, crude and unchristlike demonstrations.
46 posted on 06/15/2005 7:24:04 AM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: Hatman

Phelps and his ilk so thoroughly betray the ethic of Jesus of Nazareth that I am at a loss --- I can't quite wrap my head around such hatred and perversion.

I can't muster hatred for Phelps, only a genuine pity at someone so consumed by darkness and hate that they have feel compelled to act out their psychosis and evil on others.

Mercy triumphs over judgment. St. James


47 posted on 06/15/2005 7:31:33 AM PDT by PresbyRev
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To: dangerdoc

This ahole would be in real trouble if he picketed my kids funeral. I hope her dad lays a can of whoop a-- on him.


48 posted on 06/15/2005 7:32:53 AM PDT by mortal19440
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To: Dane
This guy is probably a democrat plant ........ to make those against the radical homosexual agenda look like nutcases in the press.

Thanks for that VERY disturbing link, Dane.
I think the first part of your statement is on target. While the last portion is probably correct, my guess is it is far more encompassing than that!

From day one, the demonRATS and their worshipers have been blaming and condemning the "evangelical" Christians for re-electing President Bush and suggesting that he is trying to turn this country into a theocracy. Over the memorial day week-end I heard veterans claiming they were the ones responsible. This guy is the poster child the demonRATS are holding up as representative of all Christians, while supporting their anti-military agenda as well.

This man needs a nice "white coat" and a bed at the nearest asylum...ASAP.

49 posted on 06/15/2005 7:39:14 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (I - L O V E - my attitude problem!)
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To: mortal19440

The more we see the extremes on the left, the more we will see such counter-extremes created. I am interested in seeing this 'movie' about this guy, just to understand the way he thinks but I do think that he is an extremist that gives a terribly wrong message of Christianity.

http://www.hatemongers.com/home.html


50 posted on 06/15/2005 7:40:40 AM PDT by AgThorn (Bush is my president, but he needs to protect our borders. FIRST, before any talk of "Amnesty.")
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To: dangerdoc

I know what you mean. A while back they showed up on Sunday morning at a Catholic Church my co-workder attends to protest, and they had those signs with the "stick figures" on them - they also had signs with Pope John Paul II picture on them that said "The pope is in hell". My co-worker said explaining to his small children "why those people have those signs" was not fun.


51 posted on 06/15/2005 7:50:15 AM PDT by rockchalkjayhawk
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To: rockchalkjayhawk; Vic3O3; cavtrooper21

Rockchalk,

We used to live in Lawrence during the time frame that he is saying his church got "bombed". I don't remember hearing a thing about it.

Everyone needs to remember that Fred is a demoRat and a AlGore supporter.

But, this is new ground for someone as insane as Fred. What a freak.

Semper Fi


52 posted on 06/15/2005 8:07:37 AM PDT by dd5339 (A sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path.)
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To: mortal19440
I hope her dad lays a can of whoop a-- on him.

I don't think her Dad is the appropriate person for the job. He's got her mother and siblings, if any, to console. Her brothers, if she has them, and her comrades of the National Guard would be more appropriate. The guy and his clan shouldn't get within a mile of the funeral.

53 posted on 06/15/2005 8:08:29 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: P-Marlowe; xzins; Revelation 911
Phelp's Bio

I just can't bring myself to ping the GRPLs.

54 posted on 06/15/2005 8:10:22 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (http://www.kaineisnotable.com)
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To: Diva Betsy Ross
To protest anyone's memorial service is beyond sick.

I am all for the first ammendment. But you nailed it. A memorial is not the time or place for any protest.

55 posted on 06/15/2005 8:13:04 AM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed.)
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To: Hatman
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.

Phelps gained national notoriety in 1998 when he picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student beaten to death in Wyoming.

Since then, Phelps said his church has been the target of hateful words and actions, including a bomb attack six years ago.

What a sick man.

As the Bible says, there is a time for everything under heaven. Even if he feels that God is punishing American by allowing our soldiers die in Iraq, he has no business picketing a funeral.

56 posted on 06/15/2005 8:15:02 AM PDT by george wythe
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To: Non-Sequitur; Z-28

Soros has been around for over 35 years in politics . He could very well have donated to this guy who was a GORE supporter in the past.


57 posted on 06/15/2005 8:31:52 AM PDT by Lion in Winter (Getting old is NOT for sissies.... trust me, I know!)
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To: Lion in Winter
Soros has been around for over 35 years in politics . He could very well have donated to this guy who was a GORE supporter in the past.

Hardly. I've been watching Phred Phelps' antics for over 10 years now. Nobody will touch him, not even Soros.

58 posted on 06/15/2005 8:33:28 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Lion in Winter; dd5339; cavtrooper21

Back in the 60's 'Phred' was a reasonably respected civil rights attorney. Then he cracked mentally, and got himself disbarred. Not sure what exactly led to the disbarment, but I'm sure it's public record in Lexis/Nexis if someone wanted to research it. He's been a real crank since the late 60's.


59 posted on 06/15/2005 9:01:05 AM PDT by Vic3O3 (Jeremiah 31:16-17 (KJV))
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To: Non-Sequitur
Phelps was pulling this sick crap long before Soros got into politics.

Maybe if he settled down with the right guy and got laid, he'd calm down.

60 posted on 06/15/2005 9:06:07 AM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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