Fred Phelps, former head of Westboro Baptist Church, died, family member says

WIBW ^ | Mar 20, 2014

[Second Amendment First]

Fred Phelps Sr., the former head of the Westboro Baptist Church, died late Wednesday night, according to a family member.

Phelps' son, Timothy told 13 News that his father died just before midnight. Timothy Pheps works at the Shawnee Co. Jail.

Ironically, another son who is a member of the church, attorney Jonathan Phelps told us Thursday morning, "Pastor Phelps is doing just fine." That, of course, could have been a spiritual reference.

Over the weekend, we learned that Phelps was reportedly "on the edge of death."

In a statement on his Facebook page, Nathan Phelps, who has been estranged from his father for 30 years, said the senior Phelps was dying in hospice care in Topeka, Kan., and that he had been ex-communicated from his own church in August of 2013.

[Second Amendment First]

Reached by phone in Topeka, Shirley Phelps-Roper confirmed her father had died at Midland Care Hospice.

Phelps-Roper politely said it was "none of your business" to a reporter's questions of whether members of Phelps' family had been present when he died and whether a funeral service would be conducted for her father.

http://cjonline.com/news/2014-03-20/shirley-phelps-roper-wbc-founder-fred-phelps-dead

[PA Engineer]

Another Democrat................

He'll keep voting Democrat in multiple precints too.

[onyx]

LOL.
Well, ‘bless their hearts.’

[Revolting cat!]

Is he gonna picket his own funeral?

[Vigilanteman]

They need to install a pay urinal on his grave to start paying off just a little of the damage he did in life.

[onyx]

WOW!
Good on you and the Secret Service!

[Nifster]

What does your comment even mean????

[onyx]

You’re right!

[Lazamataz]

Best news in months. Burn in hell, you bastard.

[dfwgator]

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church plan a massive loud protest at his funeral.

Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

[Second Amendment First]

My very first FReep, first of several encounters with the SS, with my loyal GS dog Max.

[momtothree]

Biting my tongue... biting my tongue.

[fwdude]

One less Democratic voter... oh, wait...

[onyx]

I’m smiling! You had a great first FReep!!!

[GraceG]

[ Biting my tongue... biting my tongue. ]

I Fink i vit mah funge....

[onyx]

ROTFL.

[verga]

I hope that he received the Grace of repentance and conversion before he died.

Agreed.

[DoodleDawg]

Bet you a dollar that Phelps in real life was an atheist.

You're on. Wish there was a way to determine who won.

[afsnco]

I agree with their foundational message, that God is judging our nation because of our descent into depravity. I can certainly understand their frustration that our nation bows to the sins of abortion, adultery and homosexuality, to the exclusion of obedience to God. The simple formula is that God blesses obedience and punishes disobedience.

It’s the protesting at military funerals that has been wrongheaded and downright counterproductive. They should’ve confined their protests to homosexuals’ funerals. With AIDS and all the cancers they contract because of their deathstyle, there shouldn’t be any shortage of them.

[CSM]

I hope that some protestors show up with signs equally as offensive as those of “his flock.”