I don’t think they actually hate the United States. What they are protesting is that the US, they feel, has abandoned it’s Biblical roots and no longer deserves to be revered as a place of respect. This is most evident in their protests of military funerals where they voice their opposition to having homosexuals in the military.
That's what they say, but it is a load of crap. Hell, they don't even use the Bible, they are cultists known as Tachmonites who have their own scripture 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. They 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.
Oh yea, and they are rabid libs as well. Phelps has run for office as a Democrat several times and has worked for and is friends with Al Gore.
Their theology is a cross between Branch Dividians and the Discovery Channel shooter.
Then no doubt you would feel right at home there, protesting funerals, burning flags, and keeping the gothatesamerica.com website up to date?