Westboro Baptist Church: The Scourge of the Flatlands

MICHAEL WESTFALL'S "THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE WORKER" ^ | 2-13-2008 | Paul Ibbetson

[carolgr]

I ran across the Phelps clan a few years ago when they were protesting a church I was attending in Wichita Kansas. I had never heard of the group before and I suddenly found myself within swinging distance without any context of who I was dealing with. I assumed from their colorful “GOD HATES FAGS” signs that they were a pro-homosexual advocacy group possibly angry about a bible lesson on Sodom and Gomorrah that they might have heard at the church that did not fit their lifestyle. I later found that the Westboro Baptist Church was a small, crazy, dysfunctional family group turned cult that liked to travel to the funerals of dead soldiers to tell their families that their child was in hell due to the evils of homosexuality. These acts of lunacy and open displays of pure hate earned the Westboro Baptist Church the designation as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a designation that these folks have worked hard to earn.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

If I wish for a comet strike on their ‘compound’, does that make me a bad person?

[metmom]

The military could practice maneuvers near them.

You know what a hazard friendly fire can be.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

You know what a hazard friendly fire can be.

Fire wouldn't be friendly, I reckon.

[Steely Tom]

They’re no different that PETA, really.

Just another bunch of psychos for whom publicity is therapy.

[PubliusMM]

Religious zealotry, of any stripe, is anathema to freedom loving people, everywhere. The twisted logic that drives the Westboro moonbats is further confirmation.

[metmom]

I don’t think so but better for them to say “Ooops, we missed our intended target.” than for it to look too deliberate.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Maybe Topeka could take a page from the Berkeley City Council playbook and set up reserved parking spaces for [some organization that Phelps likes to protest] on the street in front of WBC. Of course, it would be easy to completely ring the church with one space for each organization that Phelps hates.

[SlapHappyPappy]

This author has pointed out their dirty little secret. Almost every member in the “church” is a direct descendant of Phelps. His daughters have as many as 11 kids, and the grandkids are on the same path.

It’s not a church. It’s a seriously messed up family.