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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/westboro-baptist-church-founder-fred-phelps-sr-on-the-edge-of-death-son-says/
Last Updated Mar 16, 2014 7:53 PM EDT
The estranged son of the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church said his father is "on the edge of death."
Fred Phelps Sr. became famous for organizing picket lines of brightly-colored signs carrying hateful messages against tolerance during the funerals of military personnel and famous figures. His actions led to at least two federal and several state laws restricting protests during military funerals.
In a statement on his Facebook page, Nathan Phelps, who has been estranged from his father for 30 years, said the senior Phelps was dying in hospice care in Topeka, Kan., and that he had been excommunicated from his own church in August of 2013.
"I'm not sure how I feel about this. Terribly ironic that his devotion to his god ends this way. Destroyed by the monster he made," Nathan Phelps wrote.
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"I feel sad for all the hurt he's caused so many," he continued. "I feel sad for those who will lose the grandfather and father they loved. And I'm bitterly angry that my family is blocking the family members who left from seeing him, and saying their good-byes."
A spokesman for the Westboro Baptist Church said Sunday that the elder Phelps, 84, was being cared for in a facility in Shawnee County, Kan. Spokesman Steve Drain declined to identify the facility or to characterize Phelps' condition.
"I can tell you that Fred Phelps is having some health problems," Drain said. "He's an old man, and old people get health problems."
Drain declined comment Sunday on whether Fred Phelps had been voted out of the church.
Just last week, a federal judge upheld a Missouri law requiring protesters to stay at least a football-field length away from funeral sites, beginning an hour before they start until an hour after the services end.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. caps a nearly eight-year legal fight over Missouri's funeral protest restrictions that were prompted after members of a Kansas church opposed to homosexuality protested at the funeral of a Missouri solider who had been killed in Iraq.
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said the law is now in effect.
"No parent who has lost a child should be confronted by the hate and intolerance of strangers, and today's ruling means parents and other loved ones will have a protective boundary from protesters," Koster said Tuesday in a written statement.
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coach
no trolling on my part here
there is no God
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God's what?
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So you're saying god doesn't hate fags Coach, is that right?
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This is where I wish there was a hell.
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So you're saying god doesn't hate fags Coach, is that right?
No, he doesn't.
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Finally, he dies. This could not have come soon enough.
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Here is truth for any that would listen. We are all mortal and that is unfortunate. What is even more unfortunate is so very few of us are moral.
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Here is truth for any that would listen. We are all mortal and that is unfortunate. What is even more unfortunate is so very few of us are moral.
Well said.
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Here is truth for any that would listen. We are all mortal and that is unfortunate. What is even more unfortunate is so very few of us are moral.
Probably one less moral person than you think..
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Probably one less moral person than you think..
To be honest, there is not a one of us worthy of being called moral all the time. Mortality is unavoidable but morality? We, each of us really, tend to avoid it when it suits our desires. Myself included.
As the Lord lives it is fact that we all desire immortality but seem to settle for immorality. All of us do this. We are who we have chosen to be and even if there were no God what we do in secret, be it good or bad, is still known to at least one. Ourselves.
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To be honest, there is not a one of us worthy of being called moral all the time. Mortality is unavoidable but morality? We, each of us really, tend to avoid it when it suits our desires. Myself included.
As the Lord lives it is fact that we all desire immortality but seem to settle for immorality. All of us do this. We are who we have chosen to be and even if there were no God what we do in secret, be it good or bad, is still known to at least one. Ourselves.
apologies for my rude comment. i wonder if he feels any differently about the way he lived on his death bed.
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apologies for my rude comment. i wonder if he feels any differently about the way he lived on his death bed.
I sensed no rudeness in your words, only honesty sir. It's said that the truth can be brutal but that is only when the one hearing it is being dishonest with themselves.
If he is without love and therefor without God, he will have no regrets. It is my hope that he has plenty.
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So... where's the funeral gonna be?
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(http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Anti-Westboro-Baptist-Church.jpg)
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America, the land of crazy cults.
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I hope people do the same to them and rally outside his funeral
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The Scott, your posts in this thread are bringing glory to God. :)
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Good riddance!
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Lots of fag enablers in this thread.
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apologies for my rude comment. i wonder if he feels any differently about the way he lived on his death bed.
Fag, haha, sorry scott don't pound my ass sir. gay fruit.
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I'm praying that he'll repent of his actions before it's too late.
"As it is written: "'God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.'" - Romans 2:24
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Lots of fag enablers in this thread.
:D
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So... where's the funeral gonna be?
Yes! We can send Basile to crash/protest the service.
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Yes! We can send Basile to crash/protest the service.
One of those old school protests where they just sit down and talk and talk and won't leave. What did they call those? A Bore-In?
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(http://www.metalinjection.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Anti-Westboro-Baptist-Church.jpg)
Quality shirt 8)
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Quality shirt 8)
666 the one for you and me..
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like every god botherer he wasted his fucking life believing in fairy fucking stories. the stupid c . u .n .t
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like every god botherer he wasted his fucking life believing in fairy fucking stories. the stupid c . u .n .t
It takes a special breed to choose his particular brand, though. If I were him at this point, I'd be so hoping the atheists were right.
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he's jut a caricature of the idiocy of religion.
a cartoon version of your everyday bible thumper.
for this reason he has been great for people who refuse to follow the bullshit. everything he claims is in the bible- it is the word of god. so how can he be more wrong than any other christian. unless his god doesn't mind how people interpret his law.
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he's jut a caricature of the idiocy of religion.
a cartoon version of your everyday bible thumper.
for this reason he has been great for people who refuse to follow the bullshit. everything he claims is in the bible- it is the word of god. so how can he be more wrong than any other christian. unless his god doesn't mind how people interpret his law.
No, you're right. Just that the cherry-picking variety are far more tolerable is all.
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Death comes for us all.
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he's jut a caricature of the idiocy of religion.
a cartoon version of your everyday bible thumper.
for this reason he has been great for people who refuse to follow the bullshit. everything he claims is in the bible- it is the word of god. so how can he be more wrong than any other christian. unless his god doesn't mind how people interpret his law.
God gave us and gives us free will. Freedom to interpret things so that they conform to our feelings. Like scientists who interpret data to conform to their atheism.
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If I ever go to Kansas this is one guys grave I will be sure to piss on.
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Like scientists who interpret data to conform to their atheism.
I'm not sure it works that way. You think they are purposely ignoring evidence of an Ark, or a great flood, or a 6,000 year-old planet, etc.?
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I'm not sure it works that way. You think they are purposely ignoring evidence of an Ark, or a great flood, or a 6,000 year-old planet, etc.?
one day somebody said to themselves "I dont believe what I have been told about God, let me go find proof that things are not how people say they are, let me go make a new discovery of my own" and so they began their search from a certain viewpoint, one that rejects God. They did this because of a moral issue. They used theirimagination tto fantasize about ways in which things could be, and when they found something that they could use as evidence for one of their imaginary ideas they started to construct a theory. That is how all science works, particularly "history" science (concerning unseen events of the past)
Theres plenty of evidence that supports the biblical account. Indeed, all of the evidence does.
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one day somebody said to themselves "I dont believe what I have been told about God, let me go find proof that things are not how people say they are, let me go make a new discovery of my own" and so they began their search from a certain viewpoint, one that rejects God. They did this because of a moral issue. They used theirimagination tto fantasize about ways in which things could be, and when they found something that they could use as evidence for one of their imaginary ideas they started to construct a theory. That is how all science works, particularly "history" science (concerning unseen events of the past)
Theres plenty of evidence that supports the biblical account. Indeed, all of the evidence does.
If that works for you. God bless.
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If that works for you. God bless.
& God bless you!
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Fag, haha, sorry scott don't pound my ass sir. gay fruit.
;D sounds to me like you're crying out for me to be rude to you in more ways than one
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;D sounds to me like you're crying out for me to be rude to you in more ways than one
I am so honry in this thread.
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Annndddddd.......he's gone
http://kansasfirstnews.com/2014/03/20/founder-of-westboro-baptist-church-rev-fred-phelps-sr-dies/ (http://kansasfirstnews.com/2014/03/20/founder-of-westboro-baptist-church-rev-fred-phelps-sr-dies/)
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about time ;D