Stand-up guy, at least here.
Just another misleading headline of the type that irritates the hell out of me.
Thanks Bill! The Westboro crew really appreciates it.
I went a greek diner on Long Island where I saw photos of Bill O’Reilly on the wall taking amputee Wounded Warriors out for breakfast.
I don’t always agree with his his triangulations and politics, but O’Reilly is a ferocius defender of children against pedophiles and wounded veterans.
Westboro Baptist Church isn’t a ‘church’. It’s a LAW FIRM!
WBC, through the closely related Phelps Chartered law firm, has collected fees under the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Award Act of 1976 when their protests have been unlawfully disrupted
The Westboro Baptist Church, of Topeka, Kansas, is a hate group masquerading as a Christian church. Led by the Rev. Fred Phelps
Despite the term ‘Baptist’ in the church’s name, the hate group – made up largely of Phelp’s children, grandchildren and in-laws (who are all lawyers) – is not affiliated with any denomination
Phelps is a disbarred lawyer, founder of the Phelps Chartered law firm and former candidate for political office, and was a civil rights activist in Kansas. He and his daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, are banned from entering the United Kingdom
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Civil rights attorney
Phelps earned a law degree from Washburn University in 1962, and founded the Phelps Chartered law firm in 1964. The first notable cases were related to civil rights. “I systematically brought down the Jim Crow laws of this town,” he says. Phelps’ daughter was quoted as saying, “We took on the Jim Crow establishment, and Kansas did not take that sitting down. They used to shoot our car windows out, screaming we were nigger lovers,” and that the Phelps law firm made up one-third of the state’s federal docket of civil rights cases.
Phelps took cases on behalf of African American clients alleging racial discrimination by school systems, and a predominantly black American Legion post which had been raided by police, alleging racially-based police abuse. Phelps’ law firm obtained settlements for some clients. Phelps also sued then-President Ronald Reagan over Reagan’s appointment of a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, alleging this violated separation of church and state. The case was dismissed by the U.S. district court. Phelps’ law firm, staffed by himself and family members also represented non-white Kansans in discrimination actions against Kansas Power and Light, Southwestern Bell, and the Topeka City Attorney, and represented two female professors alleging discrimination in Kansas universities
In the 1980s Phelps received awards from the Greater Kansas City Chapter of Blacks in Government and the Bonner Springs branch of the NAACP for his work on behalf of black clients
FRED PHELPS IS A DEMOCRAT...
Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times, but has never won. These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15 percent of the vote in 1998. In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31 percent of the vote
Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election. In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a “gay bill of rights” and stated that homosexuality was not something that “society should affirm”. Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments. According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore’s 1988 campaign in Kansas. Phelps’ son, Fred Phelps Jr., hosted a Gore fundraiser at his home in Topeka and was a Gore delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
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Allegations of abuse and cult behavior
Two of his sons, Mark and Nate, allege that their father is a child abuser who repeatedly beat them with a leather strap and a mattock handle (similar to an axe handle). They insist that the church is actually a carefully planned cult that allows Phelps to see himself as a demigod, wielding absolute control over the lives of his family and congregants, essentially turning them into slaves that he can use for the sole purpose of gratifying his every whim and acting as the structure for his delusion that he is the only righteous man on Earth
Nate has alleged that his father’s violence toward his mother and his family was due to an addiction to amphetamines and barbiturates, which Phelps used to help meet the demands of law school. The stress of schoolwork, combined with the difficulties faced by the simultaneous use of uppers and downers, heightened Phelps’ “quick, violent, and indiscriminate” temper
Phelps’ stated political views and activities are primarily driven by his view that the United States is “a sodomite nation of flag-worshiping idolators.”
I don’t care much for BOR. However, good for him in this instance.
Hats off to BOR.
Those Westboro Baptist Church folks must have some EXCELLENT security.
They Insult, ridicule and piss off the most deadly faction of Americans and still suck air daily.
Kudos to BOR.
Has this judge been identified and brought into the public light? He’s disgusting.
Good for Bill O... watch the IRS agents circle in for the father if he doesn’t claim this “gift” as a “gift” on his income taxes.
Notice that they picket military funerals, but never seem to show their "God hates fags" signs at the funeral of a gay man, nor do they ever show at Gay Pride type events.
Now that’s putting your money where your mouth is. Hat tip to Bill for his generosity.
Good on Bill.
As for the Westboro hate cult, just imagine the celebration when their alpha baboon, Fred Phelps, dies and goes to hell where he belongs.
We may not have to wait long either: Fred is 80 years old, which is at least 50 years longer than he should have.
I heard the dad on an interview with Fox & FRiends this morning. It looks like they may reopen the court case that they won in one of the lower courts and force the family to pay for the expenses on that one too. I think the dad said $90,000.
What a kind and generous thing for O’Reilly to do.
Can’t watch him—he annoys the heck out of me, but this is a good deed.
“Giving Christianity/Baptists a bad name since November of 1955”
Bet Olbernazi goes nuts on O`Reilly for doing it.
Of Patriots and Pinheads
Bill O’Reilly is a true Patriot for personally writing a check to cover $16,500 in legal costs for the father of a fallen U.S. Marine who sued the members of a church who picketed his son’s funeral.
The 3 Judges who awarded the money to the Westboro Baptist Church and the Westboro Baptist Church, located in Topeka, Kan., protesting high-profile funerals, with such hatefull and vile remarks are well Mega Pinheads.
These people are an absolute disgrace and abomination to the name of true Christianity. Vile and evil nut jobs. Good for BOR.