Fred Phelps

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• News: Brooklyn, Jim Carrey, Asteroid, Jodi Rell, Subway Drama

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 741
  This is how an American soldier is made . Brooklyns oldest gay bar, The Starlite Lounge, in danger of closing : "The Starlite Lounge has been a Crown Heights fixture since the 1960s,serving gays and non-gays. In recent years, the venue has become adestination for neighborhood folks looking for a casual ...
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• Fundamentalism, the other worldwide plague

  
  theCLog — Authority: 489
  Religious fundamentalists are pretty much the same everywhere. Which is kind of funny, considering that each fundie group, whether Muslim, Christian, Jew, Hindu, or what-have-you, thinks it’s the one true source of Truth with a capital T. One of the things shared by fundies worldwide is their sheer hatefulness; they ...
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• Westboro Baptist Church Doesnt Much Care For Homos or Bobbsey Twins of Sin Sasha & Malia

  
  Democralypse Now — Authority: 127
  The freakshows and whackjobs who make up the Westboro Baptist Church, the redheaded stepchild of fringe anti-gay groups, famous for protesting at military funerals, carrying signs such as "Thank God for 9/11," and blaming the worlds woes on the dreaded sin of homosexuality have set their sights on another deviant ...
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• Westboro Baptist Cult Pickets Obama Girls School

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 610
  The Westboro Baptist Church cult is notorious for their ultra-fundamentalist anti-gay stunts, but this one crosses another line for them — as they picket a school attended by the Obama children . Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and ...
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• Kansas to Fred Phelps: Hate? Same Back Atcha, Buddy

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 814
  Filed under: Woman Up But with a small dose of gratitude from my corner. Let me explain. Pastor Fred Phelps and his flock (and I mean that literally, since church members are rumored to be first-degree relatives) are back in the news again. On Monday, the group staged a protest at a high school in Washington ...
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• Should South Park Get Away With Using the F-Word?

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  This weeks episode of South Park was an F-word extravaganza. No, not that F-word. The word "fag," the three-letter insult that has become a staple on playgrounds to tease kids, in locker rooms to ridicule teammates, and in the demonstrations of Rev. Fred Phelps and his church crew to wish LGBT people a one-way ticket ...
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• Equal Access: How The Religious Right Helped Launch Gay-Straight Alliance Clubs In Public High Schools

  
  The Wall of Separation — Authority: 547
  Last night during dinner, my daughter Claire mentioned that some of her friends who attend another high school are preparing for a gang of protesters to descend on their school. Members of Westboro Baptist Church are coming to town!You’ve probably heard of this crew. Westboro Baptist and its pastor, Fred Phelps, are ...
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• Blame the Victims to Advance Your Agenda

  
  COMOPS Journal — Authority: 400
  by Chris Lundry and Steven R. Corman On September 30th, an earthquake struck Padang, Indonesia. It measured 7.6 on the Richter Scale, killed over 1,100, and injured around 2000.  Following the quake some religious leaders moved quickly to blame the victims, a familiar tactic of exploiting natural disasters to ...
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• Phelps Counter Protest at Hazelwood Central High School a Demonstration of Love

  
  Civil Religion — Authority: 576
  Fred Phelps came to town yesterday afternoon. Fred Phelps (For a quick primer on the infamous pastor you can check out his Wikipedia page here .) Phelps was in town with members of his Westboro Baptist Church to protest at Hazelwood Central High School because of its Gay/Straight Alliance club. It should be ...
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• The Laramie Project Epilogue – My experience

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 431
    Matthew Shepard (Dec 1 1976 – Oct 12, 1998) An Ingenious New Project: An International Performance of The Laramie Project Epilogue by Barry Eitel On Monday, October 12 th , I witnessed a mixed group of Loyola and Northwestern students perform a staged reading of ...
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• Contrasting a couple ways to sneak pro-life into Halloween

  
  Voices Carry — Authority: 421
  Voilà! I can even sneak "pro-life" into Halloween!  As you can see I had a little fun with my daughter today - the puppy ate most of the pumpkin guts when we werent watching - cant wait for that to come through. The pattern for the pumpkin is here ( pdf alert ). At least I didnt do a Randall Terry Halloween ...
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• Son of Fred Phelps talks about his struggle with religion and his fathers abusive behavior.

  
  THE FOURTH — Authority: 431
  Son of Fred Phelps talks about his struggle with religion and his fathers abusive behavior. : I think I read this speech about a year ago, and reading it now is as powerful as it was then. Nate Phelps sheds light on just how terrible the actions and beliefs of the Westboro Baptist Church are. I think this is the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hateful religious zealots provide for a teachable moment

  
  Last Blog On Earth — Authority: 427
  Aside from its glossy signs (“GOD HATES FAGS,” “THANK GOD FOR 9/11”) and its sickeningly callous tactics (its parishioners have protested at the funerals of AIDS victims and soldiers who died in Iraq), Westboro Baptist Church is perhaps most famous for prompting creative counter-demonstrations. Ten years ago, ...
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• It’s Phred Phelps Phriday in San Diego

  
  Mike Tidmus : A blog from San Diego — Authority: 539
  (graphic: from the Tidmus archives) OK. It’s not officially Phred Phelps Phriday . I made that up. It’s not like our local ayatollah-ette (and you know who I’m talking about) headed downtown and whined and sputtered and spewed and threw yet another prissy-hissy at a City Council meeting, demanding a fancy ...
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• Westboro Baptist Attacks ‘Filthy Jews’ in New Videos

  
  Mountain Sage — Authority: 134
  I’ve always believed that hate consumes the hater and that hate spreads. What begins as hatred toward one group of people expands and other groups become the target of the hatred. The Westboro Baptist Church….and using the term church is blasphemy, has expanded it’s hate and picketing beyond the target of ...
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• National Equality March: A Note To Protestors

  
  Begging 4 Attention — Authority: 142
  Though we marchers at Sundays march on Washington were technically protesters, we were also subject to anti-gay protesters.  A relatively small amount of them.  I have seen pictures of a few individual conservative protesters at the National Equality March , but in person I only saw two - one standing on the side ...
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• Outside the HRC Dinner

  
  AddieStan — Authority: 91
  Greetings, Earthlings (from the "God Hates Fags" crew of the Westboro Baptist Church). I must not have the latest edition of the Bible. (Somehow missed this instruction.) More prophesy from Westboro Baptist. Arguing the Bible with the Westboro Baptist android. Dont think anybodys mind got changed. ...
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