Posted on 04/04/2007 12:54:14 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
Sweden's royal family has consulted lawyers over an abusive website set up by a fanatical American sect of fundamentalist Christians who style themselves "the most hated family in America".
King Carl XVI Gustaf provoked the anger of the anti-homosexual Westboro Baptist Church after a Swedish pastor was convicted for inciting hatred against homosexuals two years ago.
The US church's founder, pastor Fred Phelps, responded by setting up a "God hates Sweden" website, celebrating the deaths of Swedes and describing Carl XVI Gustaf as "King of Sodomite Whores". "The popinjay King of Sweden - a moral titmouse in the plumage of a peacock, who lives lavishly with kids on Sweden's largest social security check - is King of Fags," says the site.
Nina Eldh, a spokesman for Sweden's royal court, said the palace was looking at possible action under Swedish hate crime laws.
"We are looking at what can be done, though there is a problem with international websites," she said.
"We have reacted through lawyers, saying this is a crime under Swedish law."
But Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the church's founder, was unapologetic yesterday. ''They say they have human rights in Sweden. You can be any kind of filthy pervert but you cannot preach what the Christian scriptures say," she told The Daily Telegraph.
"They are threatening us but we are servants of God, we are not going away. We are for peace but when we speak the plain word of God they are for war." Mrs Phelps-Roper also defended attacks on Sweden's "immodest" Princess Madeleine, who was singled out after the Swedish king took legal action over the internet publication of her in a revealing dress.
"They are hypocrites of the first order," she said. "They have that princess, they call her, she is out there exposing herself in public with her breasts hanging out and their lawyers get the pictures taken down."
Mr Phelps, whose Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, is mainly made up of family members, has tested the US's free speech laws to the limit. He and his fellow religious zealots claim US soldiers are dying because America has given rights to homosexuals.
Libs love to put up Fred Phelps as some kind of role model of the conservative Christian Americana that wants to impose theocracy. Phelps is not any kind of mainstream figure - from what I’ve seen he’s been totally repudiated by many churches.
Maybe the church is some kinda lib Dick Tuck trick.
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And this thread demands those pictures be put UP :P
Phelps is so far off side I almost suspect him to be a homosexual “plant”.
“...almost suspect him to be a homosexual “plant”.
He is. He is a rabid communist who took on this facade because of his hatred for Christianity.
Complete embarassment here, now abroad. Maybe Sweden should sue the pants off of the Phelps.
Lovely pic. Maybe that’s a reason why the Phelps are on the attack...they’re all coyote ugly.
On a side note, his Royal Highness looks like he’s saying, “that’s Hedley Lamarr”! Teehee :)
Thats awful. That is real evil, to be so twisted in your thinking you make up what you think the opposition is saying...the ultimate expression of “ends justify the means”.
I am no longer angry. Just very very sad for this person.
Yup, Easter’s coming. Still calling this group a church and implying that all Christians are like this.
You nailed it Duke.
This is not a “Church”. It is a sick and twisted hate cult.
It is not Christian-like to think this, but I would sincerely like to hear that he got his brains stomped out by a relative at one of these servicemen’s funerals.
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Princess Madeleine of Sweden
More proof that Phelps is deranged. Any sane man would be doing his best to make friends with this young lady, unless he were a homosexual.
......hmmmm.
It’s a freakish little cult that protests funerals.
He’s totally repudiated by all churches. It’s not a church in any sense. I wonder what his angle is here, though. Certainly he can’t get rich off of a Swedish lawsuit. Maybe it’s ideological with him and he does just want to denigrate Christians.
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