Fred Phelps passes

[valet]

Though some of what he said I agreed with, his methods, religious trolling were not Christ like at all. Hopefully, he repented before he passed.

Fred Phelps Sr., a fierce opponent of homosexuality whose protests at military funerals prompted two federal laws, died early Thursday, his daughter Margie Phelps says. She didn't give the cause of death or the condition that recently put him in hospice care. He was 84.

Phelps headed the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., and was occasionally involved in politics. He gained national prominence for organizing protests against gays and Jews, including at military funerals.

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He led protesters outside the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was killed in October 1998 for what a later trial determined was because he was gay. President Obama signed a law in October 2009 making crimes against perceived sexual orientation a hate crime.

The Anti-Defamation League called the church "a small, virulently homophobic, anti-Semitic hate group" and the Southern Poverty Law Center called it "arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America."

The group also protested military funerals by saying soldiers deserved to die for defending an irreversibly corrupt government.

President George W. Bush signed a law in May 2006 that established a 150-foot zone prohibiting picketing at military funerals within an hour of the service. Obama signed a similar law in August 2012 that increased the buffer to 300 feet and doubled the prohibition to within two hours of the service.

Phelps was himself an occasional candidate. In the Kansas Democratic U.S. Senate primary in 1992, Phelps got 31% of the vote against Gloria O'Dell, who got 69%. She eventually lost to Republican Sen. Bob Dole.

Phelps, a graduate of Washburn University law school, was disbarred from Kansas state courts in 1979 after badgering a witness in a civil case in what the state Supreme Court called "a personal vendetta."

 

[The Real]

Though some of what he said I agreed with, his methods, religious trolling were not Christ like at all. Hopefully, he repented before he passed.

He got excommunicated from his own church shortly before he died because he was starting to get sick and they didn't believe anyone who was truly a man of God would be able to die a physical death. They dropped him like nothing in the end.

 

[valet]

He got excommunicated from his own church shortly before he died because he was starting to get sick and they didn't believe anyone who was truly a man of God would be able to die a physical death. They dropped him like nothing in the end.

wow. smh.

 

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[Brown_Pride]

He got excommunicated from his own church shortly before he died because he was starting to get sick and they didn't believe anyone who was truly a man of God would be able to die a physical death. They dropped him like nothing in the end.

...you saying they don't believe in physical death? Do they think they are physically immortal?
link?

 

[88m3]

 

[The Real]

...you saying they don't believe in physical death? Do they think they are physically immortal?
link?

Yes. They believe anyone in good standing with God is physically immortal. Phelps' son (who left the church himself) explains it somewhere in here:

That woman Lauren Drain, who also left the church corroborates that claim in her own book, too.

 

[superunknown23]

good

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

He got excommunicated from his own church shortly before he died because he was starting to get sick and they didn't believe anyone who was truly a man of God would be able to die a physical death. They dropped him like nothing in the end.

I'll take this as a little sliver of justice. Be religious, brehs.

 

[sun raw]

The world's a bit better now.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Ya'll know this guy was an ardent civil rights lawyer before he went batshyt crazy, right?

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

Ya'll know this guy was an ardent civil rights lawyer before he went batshyt crazy, right?

word.... https://img.pandawhale.com/72486-donald-duck-zero-fukks-given-g-gmvB.gif i hope a platoon of iraq veterans and a parade of gays troll the shyt out of his funeral.

 

[mrken12]

The world's a bit better now.

He's just one of many in this country with the same toxic mentality.

 

[无名的]

We're always taught to respect our elders. The physical and mental breakdown associated with old age causes us to give sympathy and often pity to the elderly and because of that, we infrequently consider that those people may have been horrendous people in a previous life. They've simply been slowed down by time. I'm glad Fred Phelps Sr. was a piece of shyt until the very end because this fukking guy deserves no sympathy and although I have almost zero spirituality, he gives me hope for Hell's existence.

 

[superunknown23]

gay soldiers will picket his funeral