Tag: Fred Phelps

There has been some speculation that the death of hate preacher Fred Phelps will spell the end of the hate group he founded.

That may be a case of wishful thinking, especially when you take into account that Phelps was excommunicated from the church after a power-struggle in August, 2013.

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Jailed FLDS cult leader Warren Jeffs is hospitalized. A mother convicted together with her husband for the faith healing death of their young son starts her prison sentence.

Also: Fred Phelps, the founder the Westboro Baptist Church is near death (and was reportedly excommunicated from the hate group).

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Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the constitutionality of laws restricting protests at private family funerals.

The respondent, Phelps, has staged loud protests with members of his Westboro Baptist Church at military funerals around the country. He argues his signs, bearing messages such as “You’re in hell” and “God hates you,” are protected forms of speech.

The Home Secretary has banned two extremist anti-gay preachers from entering Britain. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper, who belong to the US Westboro Baptist Church, were planning to come to the UK to protest outside a performance of a youth play which recounts the death of gay university student.

Other members of their hate group will be stopped from entering the country as well.

A despicable hate group that masquerades as a Christian church is helping to advertise a play about its founder by doing what it does best: spewing putrid hatred.

The Westboro Baptist Church also plans to protest at the funeral of a young man decapitated on a Greyhound bus last week.

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church — a hate group masquerading as a Christian church — label a fire that occured at the garage next to the ‘church’ as a religious hate crime.

The cult’s followers are known primarily for their despicable practice of picketing funerals of people they hate.