Fred Phelps' funding comes from the taxpayers.
His modus operandi for years was staging offensive protests, getting arrested and then suing the police and municipal governments for infringing his free speech rights.
He has been living off judgments for over thirty years.
The goal of these protests is for the women and children he sends to be injured so he can sue and make more money.
He has never protested a military funeral in person, because he is a physical coward who is afraid of being injured.
The last adult male Phelps associate who protested a funeral had the living Phelps kicked out of him and spent months in a hospital.
So he sends out women and kids in the hopes that they will be injured badly enough to win another windfall judgment. Phelps, although disbarred for malfeasance, was once a very sharp lawyer.
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So he sends out women and kids in the hopes that they will be injured badly enough to win another windfall judgment.
So, when the women and children are off "protesting" the old man is home alone?