Ah. but you guys are once again cherry-picking...
Fred Phelps was a member of the pre-Southern Strategy Democrats. Looks like he's been done with the party for about 15 years already...
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He supported Al Gore because Al Gore was against gay rights until the mid-90s. He turned on Al Gore with a vengeance.
Opposition to Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Rodham ClintonDuring the 1992 presidential campaign, Phelps criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton during a speech he gave endorsing Bill Clinton's presidential campaign at the University of Kansas on October 14, 1992. In 1996 Phelps and the Westboro church opposed Clinton's re-election because of the administration's support for gay rights. The entire Westboro congregation picketed a 1997 inaugural ball, [43] denouncing Vice President Al Gore as a "famous fag pimp" (Gore had changed his positions on gay rights since 1984). In 1998, Westboro picketed the funeral of Gore's father, screaming vulgarities at Gore and telling him, "your dad's in Hell".
Saddam HusseinIn 1997 (before the fall of Saddam Hussein during the 2003 Iraq War) Phelps wrote a letter to Saddam praising his regime for being, in his opinion, "the only Muslim state that allows the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to be freely and openly preached on the streets." [44] Furthermore, he stated that he would like to send a delegation to Baghdad to "preach the Gospel" for one week. Saddam granted permission, and a group of WBC congregants traveled to Iraq to protest against the U.S. The WBC members stood on the streets of Baghdad holding signs condemning both Bill and Hillary Clinton, as well as anal sex. [41] When Hussein died in December 2006, Phelps stated in a web broadcast that Saddam was in Hell along with Gerald Ford
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Barack ObamaPhelps believes that President Barack Obama is the Antichrist and that he will form an Unholy Trinity with the Catholic Church and Satan: "Barack Obama is the Antichrist, and is leading doomed america to her final destruction and the destruction of the world! We're not talking some vague, nebulus postulation, we're talking plain, straight Bible talk backed up by an overwhelming amount of real evidence - on the ground!" [
Hint: Not too many members of today's Democratic Party give a crap about what people do in their bedrooms. Not too many feel like they have to defend Christianity in the United States. Not too many talk about "straight Bible talk."
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