Posted on 03/23/2014 11:54:43 AM PDT by Libloather
Fred Phelps, a former street preacher who led a family ministry that raged against what he perceived as a morally bankrupt society, died Thursday. His legacy of picketing funerals of military veterans and disaster victims, promoting coarse language to condemn conduct he viewed as amoral, and waging legal battles that protected his actions under the First Amendment, earned him an international reputation of a man’s whose absolute conviction was never swayed in the face of widespread contempt.
“The level of his vitriol, the savageness of his comments, were just unmatched anywhere. His rhetoric was such he united people both on the far left to the far right in opposition to him and his message,” says Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala.
The organization, which tracks hate groups across the US, dubbed the Westboro Baptist Church, which Phelps founded in 1955, “arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America.”
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I think that, too. Many liberals try to pretend they are a member of a group that they want to discredit.
Phelps will not be missed.
Here is my question, where did they get their money from?
Hope he says hi to the swimmer.
May he find whatever peace he is due
That is my belief, as well.
An agent provocateur, at best.
The Church of the Poison Mind.
They’re all lawyers, they stole it through legal means.
CSM quoting the SPLC? So much for the CSM...
That fits.
The funniest thing about Phelps and Company.....You never saw them protesting at Gay Pride marches.
...earned him an international reputation of a man’s whose absolute conviction was never swayed in the face of widespread contempt.
I disagree with this. This would mean that he was at least respected for sticking to his guns.
I have seen no evidence whatsoever that this group of people led by Phelps, was viewed by anyone with anything other than extreme contempt. He wasn't respected on any level whatsoever.
Whatever sound message he may have at one time had, it preceded him in death decades earlier.
That’s a very good question.
Probably from apparatchiks behind the scenes who supported his actions against Christianity.
“arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America.”
No, the Democrat Party still holds that title.
They killed fewer people than Al Sharpton and his crew.
Known by the company they keep.
That’s the only question that need be asked. If journalism still existed, the Phelps farce would have been dead and buried a long time ago.
Fred was a lifelong member of the party, so Westboro could be considered a subsidiary.
Bingo!
Hey Potok....they were BIG supporters of AL GORE!!! Maybe they still are....they are DEMOCRATS....that’s why they are such a NASTY bunch.
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