[lady lawyer]

Somebody please explain to me why Phelps is doing this. He is the anti-gay guy, isn't he? What interest does he have in military funerals?

[Deut28]

The man, and his cult, is consumed with hate. He's always protested the military actions in the gulf, going back several administrations.

Not surprisingly, he's run in the Democrat primaries for governor many times.

[JamesP81]

Somebody please explain to me why Phelps is doing this. He is the anti-gay guy, isn't he? What interest does he have in military funerals?

Phelps is a professional left-wing bomb thrower pretending to be a Christian. His purpose, I think, is to make Christianity look bad with stunts like this one.

Hmm, I wonder what part the Mormon church has in all this. I've had my own less-than-pleasant experiences with Mormon mid and upper-level clergymen (specifically, when I got saved and joined a Southern Baptist church). I wonder what dog they have in this fight, if they have one at all.

[richmwill]

Because, he also hates America. He's doing this because, according to his words, we have "spit in the face of God by allowing gays into the military". As I've often said- "God Bless whatever kills Fred Phelps".

[Dumb_Ox]

Phelps is also an incredibly anti-war nutjob. He runs a "God Hates America" site in addition to his "God hates f*gs" one. I don't think he'd be happy unless he were high priest of the universe.

The internet slur "attention whore" comes to mind.

[familyop]

"Somebody please explain to me why Phelps is doing this. He is the anti-gay guy, isn't he? What interest does he have in military funerals?"

He's had some neo-Nazi drivel on his Web site (and might still have--don't know), so one might assume that he, like other neo-Nazis, feels friendly toward radical Islamists.

[Jacob Kell]

Because Phelps is not only anti-gay, he's also anti-American. He said that America and the West in general deserved disasters like 9/11, Katrina, and the Asian Tsunami because we basically coddle homosexuals. Apparently Phelps feels that anything less than executing or at least jailing hoimosexuals is coddling.