For example, when two sets of twin girls drowned in Massachusetts in separate incidents in July and August , the WBC blamed their deaths on the state's legalization of same-sex marriage. The church held its first service on Nov. Fred Phelps raised his family near the church and many members of the Phelps family live in houses on the WBC compound. These houses are arranged in a box formation and share a large backyard. In , Fred founded Phelps-Chartered, a law firm that has come to represent the church in its civil suits.
All five of the firms' attorneys are his children. The Kansas Supreme Court disbarred Phelps in , stating that Phelps showed "little regard for the ethics of his profession.
The WBC came to public attention when it began its "picketing ministry," meaning their practice of holding controversial protests to raise awareness of the church and its beliefs.
In line with their belief in predestination, the pickets are not aimed at winning followers, but only at warning them of their coming damnation. They began picketing in June , and claim to have picketed more than 40, times since then. Though this works out to nearly six protests a day, the church regularly schedules that many or more daily protests on an ongoing basis, although it doesn't hold every protest it advertises. The church has used its right to protest to harass local businesses and individuals in Topeka, Kan.
They reportedly picketed a local restaurant every day for three years because its owner knowingly employed a lesbian. Many of the group's targets seem chosen at random: the church picketed a concert by young Canadian pop star Justin Bieber because he was not using his fame to promote God. Shirley Phelps-Roper, who is a frequent protester and one of Fred Phelps' children, will sometimes wear American flags hanging from her pants while protesting, so that they scrape against the ground as she walks.
She has allowed her children to step on an American flag during protests. The WBC uses tactics like these to win media attention and spread its message. Children in the Phelps family are raised in the church's beliefs, and their upbringing offers them few opportunities to integrate into mainstream society. It is common to see young children from the Phelps family at WBC pickets, often holding the group's hateful signs.
These children casually use the words "f--" and "dyke" in interviews, and the older children report having no close friends at school. Supreme Court in Snyder v. Fred Phelps, Sr. Steve Drain is now the spokesperson for the group. Drain, one of the very few non-family members of the church, joined WBC in when he moved with his family from Florida to Topeka.
Megan had been one of the main activists in the church and was in charge of its social networking sites. On Twitter, she began engaging with David Abitbol, a Jewish web developer. On their website, WBC claims to have held more than 63, picketing events in cities across the country since While it is impossible to confirm these figures, WBC has been very active. The Court also noted that the WBC had obeyed directions from local officials, maintained a distance from the church where the Snyder funeral was held, and did not disrupt the funeral service.
Another case revolved around charges for flag desecration made against Shirley Phelps-Roper in Nebraska in June In February , a Nebraska state judge denied her challenge to the constitutionality of the flag desecration law. At the end of December , Phelps-Roper filed a federal lawsuit against more than a dozen Nebraska state officials, including the governor, attorney general, and judg es involved in the ongoing flag desecration case.
Her lawsuit challenges a number of state and city laws, among them those that deal with flag desecration and funeral pickets. Phelps-Roper alleges that these laws infringed upon her right to free speech and are being applied in a discriminatory fashion.
Two months later, in September, a federal judge overturned the Nebraska law. Before it began picketing the funerals of soldiers, the Westboro Baptist Church WBC was best known for picketing the funerals of gay people or those they perceived to be gay. All else about Matt is trivial and irrelevant. While the WBC has picketed the gay community at hundreds of events nationwide, most of the individuals the church has targeted are not homosexual.
In , nine Federal court judges filed a disciplinary complaint charging him and six of his family members, all attorneys, with making false accusations against them. The Phelps family fought the complaint but lost and, in , Fred Phelps agreed to not practice law in Federal court in exchange for the Federal judges allowing the other members of his family to continue practicing in Federal court. The rest of the people who claim to be Jews aren't, and they are nothing more than typical, impenitent sinners, who have no Lamb.
As evidence of their apostacy [sic], the vast majority of Jews support fags. Of course, there are Jews who still believe Gods l aw, but most of them have even departed from that. Yes, the Jews killed the Lord Jesus Now they're carrying water for the fags; that's what they do best: sin in God's face every day, with unprec edented and disproportionate amounts of sodomy, fornication, adultery, abortion and idolatry!
God hates these dark - hearted rebellious disobedient Jews. Every day since not most every day, not every day except ba d weather, not most days, but EVERY DAY , WBC has stood on those same sidewalks to remind you of your crimes and hatred, and that God will avenge our blood, which cries to him from that ground Gen His Christ-rejecting, God-hating Jew blood bubbled to the surface.
Yes, like his boss [John] Kerry, Clark is a Jew. Jews killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men; for bidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
WBC buys trees for Israel. WBC prays for the peace of Jerusalem. American taxpayers are financing this unholy monument to Jewish mendacity and greed and to filthy fag lust Homosexuals and Jews dominated Nazi Germany The Jews now wander the earth despised, smitten with moral a nd spiritual blindness by a divine judicial stroke And god has smitten Jews with a certain unique madness, whereby they are an astonishment of heart, a proverb, and a byword the butt of jokes and ridicule among all peoples whither the Lord has driven and scattered them Jews, thus perverted, out of all proportion to their numbers energize the militant sodomite agenda The American Jews are the real Nazis misusers and abusers of governmental power who hate God and the rule of law.
The Jew psychiatrists and other shyster brain - washers of Temple Beth Sholom write columns and conduct seminars to vilify and slander innocent Westboro Baptists, just as their scribes, Rabbis, Pharisees and Sadducees did to the Lord Jesus Christ and his disciples in Bible days The Jews of Temple Beth Sholom are sinful, greedy, Hell-bound, money-grubbing sodomites; and they have dedicated their synagogue to be a gay and lesbian propaganda mill and recruiting depot, soliciting young people to sodomy.
They've had more experience. Jews stirred up the Romans to butcher 6 million Christians in the catacombs in the 1st century. As first century Jews stirred up the Roman tyrants in persecuting the primitive church, so do Topeka Jews today stir up Kansas tyrants in persecuting Westboro Baptists. They whine about the Nazi Holocaust, while they perpetrate the Topeka Holocaust. WBC has conducted some 20, such demonstrations during the last nine years at homosexual parades and other events including funerals of impenitent sodomites, like Matthew Shepard.
The unique picketing ministry of Westboro Baptist Church has received national attention, and WBC believes this gospel message to be America's last hope. They want to force you by law to support their filth, and they want to shut you up by law when they hate what you say. WBC does not support the murder of Matthew Shepard However, the truth about Matthew Shepard needs to be known. He lived a Satanic lifestyle. He got himself killed trolling for anonymous homosexual sex in a bar at midnight.
Unless he repented in the final hours of his life, he is in hell. For each day that passes, he has only eternity to look forward to. All the candlelight vigils, all the tributes, all the acts of Congress, all the rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States, will not shorten his sentence by so much as one day. And all the riches of the world will not buy him one drop of water to cool his tongue.
It will damn the soul, destroy the life, and doom any nation that tolerates such ev il. God Hates Fags is a profound theological statement, which America needs more than it needs oxygen or bread.
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