Conservatives are being taken for a ride. This guy is BAD news.
Everyone is getting behind him now. Next week he is holding up a GOD HATES FAGS sign and we look stupid.
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The media are just eating this up, tho. Fits RIGHT in with their narrative.
Oh please, it's a stupid little church, who cares? it should even be a fart in a windstorm, but Obama and Petraeus have made it a big deal, they're loving this. But we should never compromise our Constitutional freedoms for anyone, especially Muslims.
Just as nobody here who was appalled at what the government did at Waco was a fan of David Koresh.
I'm not a Baptist, but I would like to defend Baptists and other Christians from being tarnished by this Phelps stuff. When are the media ever going to notice that Phelps not only isn't Baptist, he doesn't even call himself Christian?
Link: http://eve-tushnet.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#112474146614650981
What does Fred Phelps actually believe? It is, somehow, even weirder than you expected:
[From the link above]...In fact, it appears that Westboro has created not just an incredibly vulgar and non-Christlike approach to homosexuality, but that it's working on a new religion altogether, complete with new scriptures.
Members of WBC generally avoid the name "Christian" when referring to themselves, preferring the mysterious term "Tachmonite."
The Tachmonites believe Phelps is "the last prophet," with the power to determine who will be damned and who will be saved. They themselves, as followers of Phelps, also have the power to condemn souls to hell. Most people are destined for hell, but "Good Samaritans" who help the Tachmonites (for example, police officers who prevent counter-protesters from assaulting them) may be offered an indeterminate "reward" for their good conduct.
They've written their own scriptures, which are divided into two categories: "delectable epics" and "letters to heretics." The "delectable epics" (the term is the group's) are based loosely on Acts in the New Testament. The epics detail the Tachmonites' various protests against gays, President Bush, Elton John concerts, and the military and portray the Tachmonites alternately as invincible "super heroes" and defenseless victims of brutal rage. Some of the epics are in prose, and some in poetry. [And there's more...]