Sounds like a good time to remind folks the infamous Westboro Baptist church family are Democrats.
So koan and the 'hope you die of heart attacks' lefties are definitely kindred spirits.
I believe god is mad at him and his friends, as he is burning up the midwest even after extensive prayers by Perry and Inhofe and others of the persuasion.
Personally, I think god is a liberal and a really funny guy. I'll bet he smokes pot and listens to Pink Floyd too.
I liked your invisable unicorn story. Good one and is very logical-g.
I swear to never eat at Chick fil a's and hope they go bankrupt.
Rev. Fred Phelps with Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore at a Westboro Baptist Church event.
as anyone who has even a passing acquaintance with this miserable operation is well aware, the Westboro Baptist Church is not a Baptist church, evangelical or otherwise.
A detail that even Wikipedia has cottoned on to:
Westboro Baptist Church While its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is an independent church not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations, nor does any Baptist institution recognize the church as a Bible believing fellowship. The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles.
Of course people are free to claim whatever they want for themselves. I could claim to be the US Ambassador to the Holy See. But that does not make it so.
In its entry for Fred Phelps, Sr., Wikipedia also notes:
During 1993–94 interviews with the Topeka Capital-Journal, the four Phelps children (out of thirteen, Mark, Nate, Katherine and Dotty) who had left the church asserted that their father’s religious beliefs were either nonexistent to begin with or have dwindled down to nearly nothing. They insist that Westboro actually serves to enable a paraphilia of Phelps, wherein he is literally addicted to hatred.
So why does our watchdog media insist on describing this group as a fundamentalist Baptist church?
When was the last time the Peoples Temple of Jim Jones and the Kool-aid suicide cult was described as part of the Disciples of Christ? (When, in fact, they were affiliated with the DoC.)
Perhaps it is because the Westboro clan actually seek to discredit Baptists and evangelical Christian by taking every stereotypical accusation to an absurdity.
The WBC not only claims to hate homosexuals, but they are also anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic and racist — just for starters.
And as for the implicit but unmistakable implication throughout all the media stories that the Phelps cult is somehow conservative, their only political history seems to be quite in the other direction:
Again, from Wikipedia:
Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times, but has never won. These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15% of the vote in 1998.[35] In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31% of the vote Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993 and 1997.
Moreover, Mr. Phelps has often supported that Democrat standard bearer and Nobel Laureate, Al Gore.
Still more from Wikipedia:
Left to right: Fred Phelps, Tipper Gore, Betty Phelps, Al Gore in 1988. 
Al Gore with Fred and Timothy Phelps. 
Fred Phelps (left) and Al Gore (center) at a fundraiser held at the Phelps home in Topeka, Kansas in 1989. Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election. In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a “gay bill of rights” and stated that homosexuality was not something that “society should affirm”. Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments.
According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore’s 1988 campaign in Kansas. Phelps’ son, Fred Phelps Jr., hosted a Gore fundraiser, which Al and Tipper Gore attended, at his home in Topeka.
Fred Phelps, Jr. served as a Gore delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention.
Indeed, according to Wikipedia, Mr. Phelps is even a champion of Fidel Castro.
Of course it is no surprise that our mainstream media are so eager to perpetuate the myth that his cult is made up of evangelical Christian conservatives.
After all, the media will lie about anything and anyone to advance their agenda.
It’s their job.
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... It consists of a family of lawyers working for the Phelps Chartered Law Firm who reap massive monetary awards from suing those they rile up. [1] The "church" is draped with an upside-down American Flag, and is contained within a walled compound housing it and five homes for Fred Phelps and his relatives. The ACLU has filed lawsuits in Ohio and Missouri on behalf of Westboro's activities without success. [2]
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While the name implies that the church is affiliated with other mainstream Baptist churches, the WBC is independent of mainstream Christianity. The church's members are almost entirely family members and are infamous for their protests and pickets at the funerals of soldiers who died in the line of duty, where they take the opportunity to denounce what they consider to be America's acceptance of homosexuality. The name of their website reflects this. Their antics are denounced across almost all spectra of political and religious thought. Their hatred, and seeking of publicity, goes beyond homosexuality. They also protested the Pope's visit, calling him the anti-Christ.
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Fred Phelps graduated from Washburn University School of Law in Topeka in 1962 [4] and designed his church/family as a giant law firm used to sue those angry enough to retaliate against the "church" or to bar its offensive activities from their communities. Eleven of Phelps' thirteen children are lawyers. All five of the attorneys for the Phelps Chartered Law Firm, which Fred Phelps founded in 1964, are his children. [1] The firm is located at 1414 S.W. Topeka Blvd. in Topeka, Kansas. [5]
| “ | "'They scrupulously obeyed the ordinance' that kept them and their 'God hates fags' and 'America is doomed' signs away from the funeral of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, said Mark Potok, who directs Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. 'They're good at this,' Potok said, noting that the family has successfully sued many communities for monetary damages after they tried to restrict the family's constitutionally protected protests. 'They understand the First Amendment very, very well. They are not stupid people. They are vile people.'" -Andrea Stone, AOL News [1]
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The Kansas Supreme Court disbarred Fred Phelps himself in 1979 for a lack of ethics; he agreed to stop practicing law on condition 5 of his children (accused of making false accusations against federal judges) could continue to do so. [1] Because the firm represents Westboro Baptist Church in its lawsuits, it can use money from cases it wins to further fund the church. [3]
| “ | "'They have a very well-respected law firm in Topeka,' Sherman says. 'People in town said, Well, we don't like them, but if we want to win a case, we'll go to them.' Church spokeswoman Phelps-Roper says their booming employment and family law practice pays the bills for their travels across the country, when they shout their anti-gay message. They travel in vans to keep down the costs, which she says can add up to $200,000 a year... The protests are in themselves a source of some income, according to Potok. Over the years the Phelpses have filed lawsuits against communities that try to stop them from demonstrating. 'And as a general matter they have won,' he says. 'They know their First Amendment rights very well, and they've been very good at defending them.' When they win, they often receive tens of thousands of dollars in court fees. And their winning streak is likely to continue, now that the Supreme Court has decided that Westboro's right to free speech trumps the right of families to bury their loved ones undisturbed." -Barbara Bradley Hagerty, NPR [6]
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Westboro's membership is made up of Fred Phelps, 9 of his 13 children (the others are estranged), their children and spouses, and a few other families and individuals. [3] Almost all of the church's roughly 100 members are related to Fred Phelps. [6] All four of Phelps' estranged children asserted in 1993-94 interviews that their father's religious beliefs were either non-existent or have dwindled to virtually nothing, and that Westboro serves rather to sate Phelps' addiction to hatred
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The Westboro Church helped run Al Gore's Kansas campaign in 1988. Fred Phelps Jr. was a Gore delegate to the 1988 Democratic National Convention [4] and invited to the first Clinton-Gore inauguration in 1993. [10]
Phelps Sr. ran for Governor of Kansas in 1990 and received 6.7% of the vote. In 1992, Fred Phelps Sr. ran for U.S. Senate and received 30.8% of the ballots cast. [10]
Phelps has strongly supported Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein in the past. Hussein allowed a group of Westboro delegates to visit Iraq to protest against the U.S. [4]
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