[A.Hun]

They are the dregs of earth.

[misty4jc]

My comments would be promptly deleted. I can't even attempt to say what I'm feeling about this.

[nj26]

I'd swear that crowd was on the DNC payroll if I didn't know better. They seem intent on giving a bad name to every religious conservative in this country.

[TheHound]

What is a "Bapist"?

[AntiGuv]

Was it the Phelps clan again?

[scott7278]

It's the Rev. Fred Phelps, and he isn't any Baptist. It's just him and his loony family members calling themselves that.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Many decades ago my Grandpa was the first preacher on KFOR. He was not a Bapist.

[DumpsterDiver]

a funeral protest by some "Bapist" people from Kansas protesting at a Marine's funeral. These people are calling our fallen hero's fag's ect,,

That sounds like the work of that idiot Fred Phelps and his "congregation".

[LibFreeOrDie]

These idiots were doing the same thing all summer. Lots of threads here on FR over the past several months about the Westboro "church".

They were also protesting high school graduations up here in New Hampshire and Massachusetts on the pretext of fighting homosexuals. They're lunatics.

[epaul]

Bapist with "" means no one I know that is Bapist feel's this way. They are NOT the run of the mill Bapist.

[fatima]

Where is this guy located?

[SteveMcKing]

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets."

I keep praying for it.

[armymarinemom]

Insanity doesn't run in the Phelps family it gallops.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Fred Phelps was born Nov. 13, 1929, in Meridian, Mississippi. Graduated Meridian High at 16 with highest academic honors, American Legion Citizenship Award, track letter, Bausch-Lomb Science Award, Eagle Scout, Principal Appointment to West Point Military Academy. The summer following graduation, he had a profound religious experience, gave up West Point, enrolled instead for Bible/ministerial training at Bob Jones College, Cleveland, Tennessee (later moving with them as they transitioned to Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina). Ordained by the Southern Baptists Sept. 8, 1947. Met his wife, Margie M. Phelps, in 1951 while preaching at the Arizona Bible Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Their marriage May 15, 1952 has been blessed of God with 13 children, 52 grandchildren (to date) and one great-grandchild (to date). Has served as Pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, since Nov. 1955. WBC has conducted more than 22,000 picketing demonstrations across America and some foreign countries during the past 12 years -- aimed at showing Americans their transgression (Isa. 58:1) and causing America to know her abominations. Ezek. 16:2.

[mhking]

Sounds like the Phelps klan.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

Fred Phelps was born Nov. 13, 1929, in Meridian, Mississippi. Graduated Meridian High at 16 with highest academic honors, American Legion Citizenship Award, track letter, Bausch-Lomb Science Award, Eagle Scout, Principal Appointment to West Point Military Academy. The summer following graduation, he had a profound religious experience, gave up West Point, enrolled instead for Bible/ministerial training at Bob Jones College, Cleveland, Tennessee (later moving with them as they transitioned to Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina). Ordained by the Southern Baptists Sept. 8, 1947. Met his wife, Margie M. Phelps, in 1951 while preaching at the Arizona Bible Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Their marriage May 15, 1952 has been blessed of God with 13 children, 52 grandchildren (to date) and one great-grandchild (to date). Has served as Pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, since Nov. 1955. WBC has conducted more than 22,000 picketing demonstrations across America and some foreign countries during the past 12 years -- aimed at showing Americans their transgression (Isa. 58:1) and causing America to know her abominations. Ezek. 16:2.

[AZ_Cowboy]

It wouldn't have happened to have been the Westbro Baptist Church by any chance, would it?

What you describe sounds like the crap those people do. Their big claim to fame was cheering the 9/11 attacks.

In short summary, they're a bunch of nuts. Phelps has worked closely with Democrats both past and present, expressed interest in aiding Howard Dean with evangelical outreach. I kid you not. If you search around on here, you'll find articles about it.

[dighton]

Freedom of speech should be reserved for human beings.

Phelps falls well short.

[AZ_Cowboy]

Okay, folks....here's something from deep within the archives:

The Al Gore and the Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps Connection--a liberal Bob Jones Dillema

[Captainpaintball]

it really burns my ass that they can do this. Freedom of speech should be reserved for human beings. Comments?????

The First Amendment is the FIRST refuge of a scoundrel!!!