Fred Phelps the Viper: Clues to What's Driving Him-- Al Gore? [God-hates-faXs ping]

Several Sources Linked | July 1, 2005 | Arthur Wildfire! March

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

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Fred Phelps, leader of the "God-hates-faXs" movement, is planning on crashing the funeral of one of our War Dead on July 4th. Why? To spread his message of anti-homosexual SPAM in the most inappropriate way imaginable. There's a time and a place for everything. He's a publicity whore, as far as I'm concerned.

Here are snips from an earlier FR Report:

"A SF SGT E-5, James Stewart, will be buried in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 4, 2005. It's wholly appropriate that he be buried on our nation's birthday, because Sergeant Stewart gave his life for our country.... and all of us. He was killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb, call an IED in MilSpeak. IED is short for "Improvised Explosive Device." [snip]

"A Topeka, Kansas freak has announced plans to disrupt the burial with chants, bull horns and signs that read, "Thank God for IEDs" "God Hates America," "This Soldier Is In Hell," and "God Wanted This Soldier Dead." " [snip]

[posted by Mindbender26-- link posted at bottom of next post.]

It's my belief that whether that "Topeka, Kansas freak" shows up there or not, it's a good time we try to uncover just what that "freak", Fred Phelps, is about.

And while the clock is ticking, the anti-Christians are gloating, trying to compare Phelps with all Christian Conservatives. Fred Phelps is like a custom-made punching bag for the Left. And guess what? Maybe he is. Can you spell, "Al Gore?"

Fred Phelps went even further than I go [saying a lot, I have to tell you] , even further than Repent America goes, in calling sodomites to task, using our War Dead as props! He's stabbed our fighting forces in the back time-after-time. And I've been digging today to figure out why.

Here's what I've uncovered so far [and if you have sourcing that can confirm or deny, please contribute.]

1. Phelps was reportely a propaganda operative for Saddam Hussein.

2. He was reportedly a propaganda operative for Fidel Castro.

3. Fred Phelps was reportedly very tight with Al Gore, along with photographic evidence.

4. He was reportedly a narcotics abuser.

5. It's widely reported that Phelps was a shady lawyer, and several others his family have been practicing lawyers.

Let's take this step-by-step:

[Continued on my next post]

[PetroniusMaximus]

***phelps is a plant. ***

I think he is a plant.

[Dan from Michigan]

Fred Phelps is an asshole(one 2nd though, apologies to assholes). This prick threatened to protest a funeral of a soldier who died in Iraq in my county.

Thankfully he didn't show. If he did, he'd probably end up in the hospital.

[Dan from Michigan]

on 2nd thought.

[Non-Sequitur]

Won't he be in for a big surprise if he never ever truly repents.

I'm not sure who will be more disappointed; the Muslim terrorist who shows up expecting his 30 virgins, or Phred Phelps when he finally faces his Maker.

[muir_redwoods]

"He's convinced he is. To hear him talk he's destined for paradise and will probably expect to take over from God."

I recall stories of another entity with just such pretentions. That character is, I'm told, in charge of the region Fred is apparently destined to inhabit.

[dd5339]

Any local information you can point the thread toward?

I do remember in 90 when Phred was running for governor seeing him out campaigning on his bicycle while wearing PINK spandex shorts.

Semper Fi

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for posting the pic. I can't believe I'm linking to the Southern Poverty Law Center:

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=184

1974
Phelps files a $50-million class action suit against Sears after a local outlet is several days late delivering a television set. Litigation continues for six years and is eventually settled with Sears paying Phelps $126 — about $60 less than Phelps' son originally paid for the TV, which he never receives.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200010%5CPOL20001016c.html

"The 'God Hates Fags' web site was launched in the mid-1990s, many years after Gore sought and received the support of Phelps and his followers. But Phelps said he was no less vocal in his opposition to homosexuality when Gore was seeking his support in 1988. "He looked us in the eye and gave us assurance, that, based on his Bible beliefs, he was against the homosexual agenda and the killing of babies," Phelps said in a telephone interview." [snip]

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

BUMP!

Good research thread going here.

This Phelps is clearly a tool being used for evil.

"By their fruit ye shall know them."

Rotten fruit!

ALL: please bump and ping this to FL and KS residents!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for the heads up on this publicity whore.

[Buck W.]

God hates faXs? He must rely on email or use a blackberry.

[tarawa]

a bigger idiot than this "minister" I've yet to see. Go ahead and protest at the funeral. It's likely to be attended by many current and former military who would give a very warm welcome.....

[Unam Sanctam]

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

[thecabal]

I know it's Wikipedia, but check out this link for some more insight into his church cult.

WBC

Here's a few enlightening quotes from the article about this so-called man of God:

On December 29, 2004, shortly after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, Phelps's church published a flyer headlined "Thank God for Tsunami and 20,000 dead Swedes!!!", calling Sweden the "land of the sodomite damned" and saying "woe to faggot Sweden". More fliers were produced shortly after, welcoming reports of 5,000 Swedes (later reduced to 2,000) and 3,000 Americans killed in the tsunami. Another of the group's fliers expressed hope "that God will send a massive tsunami to totally devastate the North American continent". The group had also threatened to picket Swedish survivors at various locations on the island of Phuket.
Phelps responded gleefully to reports of orphaned children being kidnapped following the disaster, saying: "Better for them to be sold into lives of sex than to be taught that it's OK to be gay."

On April 9th, 2005, Phelps preached about convicted child molester and alleged murderer John Couey in his weekly sermon, using Couey as a counterpoint to gay and lesbian adoption:
"I'd sooner let John Couey, C-O-U-E-Y, who raped and buried alive little Jessica, I'd sooner let him adopt kids, than turn them over to the fags and dykes! That clear enough for ya?"

n 2000 a Jewish resident of Topeka named Lief Dolan e-mailed Phelps requesting that he stop picketing his synagogue. Phelps replied to Dolan: "Shut up you Christ hating Jew, I wish Hitler had finished the job. You and your children had better watch your back when you get out of temple. This is not a threat but a promise."

[go-dubya-04]

I didn't know God owned a fax machine. He should use email if He hates faxs so much.

[CajunConservative]

What a waste of oxygen! Talk a reprobate mind. EVIL

[CajunConservative]

Would love to see the look on his face when he realizes where he's at.

[cookcounty]

""He's also a Baptist."

Only according to him. He is not recognised by any mainstream Baptist church.

Unlike "Roman Catholic" the term "Baptist" is not trade-name protected. Anybody can call themselves a "Baptist" or their organization a "Baptist" Church.

99.9% of Baptists want absolutely nothing to do with this jerk.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Yes, he'll say anything for publicity. And maybe some people would be more comfortable quoting from the Anti-Defamation League website:

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/wbc/default.asp

"...Trained as a lawyer, Fred Phelps was disbarred in 1979 by the Kansas Supreme Court, which asserted that he had "little regard for the ethics of his profession." The formal complaint against Phelps charged that he misrepresented the truth in a motion for a new trial in a case he had brought, and that he held the defendant in the case up to "unnecessary public ridicule for which there is no basis in fact."..." [snip]

More....

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Here is what the ADL had to quote of his 'church's anti-semitic statements:

http://www.adl.org/special_reports/wbc/wbc_on_jews.asp

"Homosexuals and Jews dominated Nazi Germany...just as they now dominate this doomed U.S.A....The Jews now wander the earth despised, smitten with moral and spiritual blindness by a divine judicial stroke...And god has smitten Jews with a certain unique madness, whereby they are an astonishment of heart, a proverb, and a byword (the butt of jokes and ridicule) among all peoples whither the Lord has driven and scattered them...Jews, thus perverted, out of all proportion to their numbers energize the militant sodomite agenda...The American Jews are the real Nazis (misusers and abusers of governmental power) who hate God and the rule of law." " [snip]

Now come on. This is past insane. This is contrived. He's a 'plant', I think [like others have been saying] -- hoping to make the Christian Right look more wacko than all the left combined. Is it really any surprise he might have teamed up with Al Gore?