He was such an asset to the “gay rights” cause that I sometimes wonder if he was on their payroll.
Of course he was. The Left could point to Westboro and Phelps and loudly proclaim “See how evil those religious nuts are? Sexist-Racist-homophobe!”
It provided them with justification for their hate. As lawyers, the Phelps clan are civil-rights ambulance chasers. As a church, they’re false-front leftists, as stated in the Venona papers.