that S.O.B. fred phelps, says Iraq war dead gods way of dealing with pro-gay america

this horrible S.O.B. needs to be stopped. He is saying that the Iraq war dead are killed as punishment by god because the US is pro-gay.

this is fro the CNN web site


FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky (AP) -- Wearing vests covered in military patches, a band of motorcyclists rolls around the country from one soldier's funeral to another, cheering respectfully to overshadow jeers from church protesters.

They call themselves the Patriot Guard Riders, and they are more than 5,000 strong, forming to counter anti-gay protests held by the Rev. Fred Phelps at military funerals.

Phelps believes American deaths in Iraq are divine punishment for a country that he says harbors homosexuals. His protesters carry signs thanking God for so-called IEDs -- explosives that are a major killer of soldiers in Iraq.

The bikers shield the families of dead soldiers from the protesters, and overshadow the jeers with patriotic chants and a sea of red, white and blue flags.

"The most important thing we can do is let families know that the nation cares," said Don Woodrick, the group's Kentucky captain. "When a total stranger gets on a motorcycle in the middle of winter and drives 300 miles to hold a flag, that makes a powerful statement."

At least 14 states are considering laws aimed at the funeral protesters, who at a recent memorial service at Fort Campbell wrapped themselves in upside-down American flags. They danced and sang impromptu songs peppered with vulgarities that condemned homosexuals and soldiers.

The Patriot Guard was also there, waving up a ruckus of support for the families across the street. Community members came in the freezing rain to chant "U-S-A, U-S-A" alongside them.

"This is just the right thing to do. This is something America didn't do in the '70s," said Kurt Mayer, the group's national spokesman. "Whether we agree with why we're over there, these soldiers are dying to protect our freedoms."

Shirley Phelps-Roper, a daughter of Fred Phelps and an attorney for the Topeka, Kansas-based church, said neither state laws nor the Patriot Guard can silence their message that God killed the soldiers because they fought for a country that embraces homosexuals.

"The scriptures are crystal clear that when God sets out to punish a nation, it is with the sword. An IED is just a broken-up sword," Phelps-Roper said. "Since that is his weapon of choice, our forum of choice has got to be a dead soldier's funeral."

The church, Westboro Baptist Church, is not affiliated with a larger denomination and is made up mostly of Fred Phelps' extended family members.

During the 1990s, church members were known mostly for picketing the funerals of AIDS victims, and they have long been tracked as a hate group by the Montgomery, Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project.

The project's deputy director, Heidi Beirich, said other groups have tried to counter Phelps' message, but none has been as organized as the Patriot Guard.

"I'm not sure anybody has gone to this length to stand in solidarity," she said. "It's nice that these veterans and their supporters are trying to do something. I can't imagine anything worse, your loved one is killed in Iraq and you've got to deal with Fred Phelps."

Kentucky, home to sprawling Fort Campbell along the Tennessee line, was among the first states to attempt to deal with Phelps legislatively. Its House and Senate have each passed bills that would limit people from protesting within 300 feet of a funeral or memorial service. The Senate version would also keep protesters from being within earshot of grieving friends and family members.

Richard Wilbur, a retired police detective, said his Indiana Patriot Guard group only comes to funerals if invited by family. He said he has no problem with protests against the war but sees no place for objectors at a family's final goodbye to a soldier.

"No one deserves this," he said.

 

Yeah, Phelps is f*cking with the wrong folks now.

At some point some hoo-rah type is gonna close his medical record.

I applaud the bikers who are standing up to this asshole.

 

Phelps jumps on any opportunity for a lawsuit... that is the whole scheme. All they try to do is get a rise out of people.

They visited my area a while ago.

 

mushie is right the best way to stop these morons is to ignore them
and pretend they are not there

 

Nobody would have a clue who Fred Phelps is if not for the gay activist crowd absolutely using him at every turn.
At this point, I would not be the slightest bit surprised to find out that Fred Phelps and his whole 'Congregation' are a group of actors paid for and working for 'Actup' or some radical gay rights group.

Wouldnt be surprised at all.

 

BUM BOYS u stupid wankers i bet u wont to have sex with a little boy u make me sick i hope u lose u penis in a mans ass hahahahahahaahahaha y dont u try a vagina

 

i had sex with a blaack man last night his willy was 13" im currently wondering if the pain im feeling in the top of my arse will go away he told me before we fucked like rabbits he had aids can i catch this?

 

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Unfortunately Phelps is very real, and a product of the bizarre, rightwing nuts in the U.S.

Eraz, you deride that anyone even mention this lunatic, what you're trying to do is hide the darkness that lies at the root of the Right Wingers. And yet you are constantly referring to certain outre elements of the left. Turn about is considered fair play.

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Fred Phelps has done more to discredit the homophobia of the right than any man alive.

 

is it wrong to fuck ur son
love karen nelson

 

because i did.twice
love karen nelson

 

my boy friend had a shit in my mouth wen i was a sleep is this wrong?

 

Thumbs up to Patriot Guard Riders

Someone should "accidentally" punch out Mr Phelps at one of these demonstrations

 

I've said this before, but the worst thing you can do to someone like Phelps is to risk making a free-speech martyr of him. He does a far better job of discrediting himself and those around him than anyone else ever could.

In other "likelihood" news, Brokeback Mountain was written, directed and starred in by Pat Robertson and Anne Coulter.

Is it so hard to imagine that there actually are poisonous assholes in the world?

 

It's not difficult at all to imagine that there actually are poisonous assholes in the world. The difficult part is imagining assholes that are so truly and thoroughly assholish. Phelps comes off as a bad parody of ignorant homophobia.

 

It's like when you listen to "Stayin' Alive" and realise that no-one has ever done a better Beegees parody than the Beegees.

 

Some people are so lame that you can punish them without risking turning them into a martyr. Take David Irving for instance. I disagree with what they did to him, but nobody in the UK or anywhere else feels sorry for him.

 

If he is not being paid by some gay-activist org then they ought to be donating anyways - the guy is simply that good for them.

For what its worth, Phelps is an insane freak who spends as much time damning those 'right wing Christians' as well as anyone else.
You ought to hear him rip into Billy Graham of all people.

 

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I disagree, he is a very apt example of ignorant homophobia. Homophobia is bigotry. Hate. Phelps is unafraid to express his hate. This is the kind of man our president aligned himself with in order to win the election. I agree with SelfControl, he's like a Bee Gees mullet -a scary anachronism.


Eraz, what has you mad is not his ludicrous bigotry and hate, because you share that, but that he isn't more discrete about it.


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The holocaust denial guy? I don't get that. Why travel from a country where it's not illegal to a country where it carries a ten-year sentence to preach that kind of stuff unless you want to be oppressed.