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Westboro Baptist Church Minister Fred Phelps Hates U.S. Troops

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church run by Fred Phelps.
The Supreme Court is hearing a case today that can only be described as unbelievable. ”A father whose Marine Corps son was killed in Iraq and whose funeral was protested by fundamentalist pastor Fred Phelps and his anti-gay followers” is suing Phelps for damages.
Albert Snyder previously sued Phelps for damages and won $5 million in a jury verdict, but the case was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals. According to USA Today, “The case arose after Matthew Snyder, a Marine Corps lance corporal, was killed in Iraq in 2006. Fred Phelps and members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who comb media reports nationwide for news of military funerals, saw that Matthew would be memorialized and buried in rural Maryland. They protested near the Catholic church in Westminster, Md., with signs that said: “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” “Fag Troops” and “Pope in Hell.”
Phelps is widely known for his “God Hates Fags” campaign, and used Lance Corporal Snyder’s private funeral as a platform for his public outcry against the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy – despite the fact that Matthew Snyder was not gay. USA Today reports, “Church followers separately posted on the Web a video “epic” about their protests entitled The Burden of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder. The video said Albert Snyder and his ex-wife had taught Matthew to defy his creator and raised him for the devil.”
As you can imagine, having to bear that type of assault at your son’s funeral is entirely unthinkable. But having the Court of Appeals determine that Phelps had a right to propagate his hate at your son’s funeral – your son who died in the service of his nation – is a slap in the face.
“As utterly distasteful as these signs are,” the 4th Circuit said, “they involve matters of public concern, including the issue of homosexuals in the military, the sex-abuse scandal within the Catholic Church and the political and moral conduct of the United States and its citizens.”
In his appeal today, Albert Snyder’s lawyer said, “Mr. Snyder simply wanted to bury his son in a private, dignified manner.” What parent doesn’t deserve to have that basic request be honored in a time of grief? How is it that we’re even considering whether or not it’s okay for hate speech to be allowed at a funeral?
The Veterans of Foreign Wars are backing the Snyders and “stress the need to protect the privacy of grieving military families.” The ACLU, on the other hand, says, “Phelps’ horrific message is exactly the kind of unpopular, offensive speech the First Amendment was intended to protect.” While I agree that Phelps has a right to say whatever he wants under the Fist Amendment, the question in this case is whether or not Phelps’s chosen protest location impinged on the right of the Snyder family to a private burial.
While the Supreme Court will likely not rule in this case for some time, my hope is that they declare Phelps overstepped his boundaries this time. It’s been said multiple times in the last few days, but this is a point that bears repeating: By sanctioning the hatred of homosexuals, we are sending a message to the school bullies who’ve taunted gay kids like Asher Brown and Tyler Clementi to kill themselves that what they’re doing is not only okay, it’s the right thing to do. Clearly we’ve come to a cultural boiling point regarding gay rights; I think it’s time for the madness to end. Gay rights are the civil rights issue of our day, and I look forward to a time when we can look back as a nation and say, “Wow. Look how far we’ve come.”
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Westboro Baptist Church Minister Fred Phelps Hates U.S. Troops | Westboro Baptist Church commented on Mar 21 11 at 10:56 amAnn commented on Oct 06 10 at 2:05 pmComments: I believe that you are protraying God in the wrong manner. Jesus left us with a commandment: Love one another as I have loved you. He may not love our ways but, he loves us all. You can not condemn people because you are not the judge. We as Christian should be showing the Love of Christ not hatred. He loves homosexuals, gays, murders, abortionist, and even people who call themselves christians that do not act like Christians but, he does not love the sin. He will forgive them, you and all the rest of us who sin each day. Being a Christian is to be Christ Like. This protest was not Christ Like… I will pray for you and the people you have hurt so badly and the people you are leading astray.
carolyncastiglia commented on Oct 06 10 at 2:07 pmWell said, Ann. God is love. I don’t hate Fred Phelps. But I abhor the things he stands for.
Manjari commented on Oct 06 10 at 2:14 pmIf I believed in hell, I would think Phelps was going there. He’s just pure evil.
Bob McEwen, USMC, Ret commented on Oct 06 10 at 2:28 pmComments Havine some knowledge of laws of libel and slander, Mr. Phelps and company seem to have violated both with verbal and written accusations…both false..and might be tried for both. Example “Albert Snyder and his ex-wife had taught Matthew to defy his creator and raised him for the devil.”
Cindi Johnson commented on Oct 06 10 at 2:38 pmComments Freedom is not free first of all. YOU do not have the FREEDOM TO SPEAK FOR GOD, won’t you be surprised to find when your day comes to see the Lord, How wrong you are. God is incapable of iniquity and hatred thats why he leaves free will in our laps. Obviously your Church has this hatred as a source in which you believe or you would not CHOOSE to hate at all and truly walk as GOD has ordered, with LOVE.
Cindi Johnson commented on Oct 06 10 at 2:43 pmComments I will pray for your church you sure could use that from true christians.
Laura commented on Oct 06 10 at 2:50 pmHe is a truly evil man, and his cult is disgusting. I know this is an important court case, but I wish all reporters would consent to a voluntary blackout on stories about him and his church. He would cease to exist. And that would be a very good thing.
Christ. Ward commented on Oct 07 10 at 12:21 amDON’T KILL THE MESSENGER!
Sermon from Lloyd the Baptist
Matthew 24:35-36
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth NO MAN, no, not the angels of heaven, but my FATHER ONLY”
Matthew 25:13
“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the SON of man cometh”
REMEMBER those two Bible quotes. I’ll get back to THAT later…I give thanks and praise to the Almighty GOD, the SON JESUS, and HOLY SPIRIT… I’ve just come back from my yearly Christmas pilgrimage into the Blood of Christ mountains. I walked out of the Sangre de Cristos with a MESSAGE from the SON. The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY is NOT happy…
Search your hearts and minds for the faith to BELIEVE what I tell you is TRUE. The WRATH of GOD is about to come down on those that displease the LORD. I’m bring a WARNING for CHRISTIANS, heed the WORD of the LORD or be punished for your ignorance…
I was baptized in HOLY SPIRIT and tell you NOW… the HOLY TRINITY is in NO WAY associated with ANY of the paranoid, delusional right-wing, moralists that congregate in America’s Evangelical Christian community. An angel of GOD, surrounded with the Holy Spirit, appeared to me near the mountain top at the Holy Hot Spring.
A terrifying vision was revealed to me… the suffering and degradation of a whole generation of good Christians who were led astray by FALSE PROPHETS. Ohhh can one even imagine the PAINFUL scene of so many Christians being cast into HELL?
(Lloyd weeping)Basically decent, hardworking Americans who were convinced that GOD was their good friend and JESUS their personal savior. Only to find out… to REALIZE they were supporting policies that came from satan himself. Holy delusions that actually fooled millions of church goers into a belief system that PRAYS FOR WAR while PRAYING AGAINST HEALTH CARE for fellow Americans and the least of their Brothers/Sisters. 47 million of them… JESUS was a healer, right?
Christians allowed themselves to be turned away from Nature and this precious environment GOD created to meet ALL our needs. While their Corporate Masters used the air and water as SEWERS and ground to bury TOXIC WASTE… Pastors were taught to demonize or make fun of cultures that cherish Nature or the Sun. Science is sent to the back of the bus. So lost in their right-wing Christian vanity… they consider themselves more intelligent than the world’s top climate scientists.
Instead of feeding the starving human beings of the world… Christians allowed their tax dollars to be used to PROVIDE WEAPONS instead. How dare you BELIEVE that JESUS was on the same side as the WAR PROFITEERS, ARMS DEALERS!
JESUS says “…satan thrives on hatred, chaos, suffering, conflict, war, destroying nature, etc. and those who PROFIT from THAT are his followers”
Back in the USA 40+MILLION Americans are struggling below the poverty level but Conservative Christian priorities are about tax cuts for the RICH and tax deductible status for churches connected to their Evangelical Associations. Listening to Pat Robertson speak out against Wall St. reform and regulation, one could get the idea these type Christians would have defended the “money changers” from JESUS.
Charity is NOT for love’s sake but a MISSION to spread their warped belief system and hatred of gays/lesbians to the poor peoples of the world.
JESUS says Christians are not using the good brain cells the FATHER blessed them with. They ignored Bible quotes above, while listening to authors of the FICTIONAL “Left Behind” books (OR John Nelson Darby) ARE YOU MORoNS CRAZY? Jumping for joy that the end is near and JESUS is on his way to take them to paradise in the clouds.
The LORD GOD ALMIGHTY says Christians will be STOPPED before they give the Neo-Cons/Republican Party enough wealth and power to hurry along Armageddon. Only GOD knows the time of Revelations prophecies, those that tell you different are false prophets leading you on the PATH TO HELL! The WRATH of GOD will soon be upon you unless YOU REPENT! Show humility and ask forgiveness for your FOOLISHNESS, LOW GRADE THOUGHT PROCESSES and SINS of the past.
After December 27, 2009 if you do not turn from the wicked ways… the very words from Christian mouths will be a plague on their daily lives. If they cast stones, they will be shown and exposed as hypocrites… If they curse their fellow man/woman the curse will come back at them. If they fail to look out for the poor, jobless, homeless, starving, physically/mentally ill or any other of the least of your brothers/sisters then fortunes will be lost and your children will know of these afflictions. If you teach hatred you shall become what you hate” (right Bishop Eddie Long)
In the name of father GOD, JESUS and the HOLY SPIRIT… So it is written, so shall it be DONE! Through the blessed mercy of JESUS CHRIST you been given this WARNING and last chance… What you do with it is up to YOU!
AMEN…
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Kim Schwartz commented on Oct 07 10 at 9:19 amIt saddens me that this man and his followers are doing these horrific things, at a time when there is evil everywhere and people need to know there is a God that loves them no matter what. Protesting issues is one thing, but have a little respect for these poor parents who are grieving there son’s death. I am a Christian, and the God I worship will give these people their due when the time comes.
RJ commented on Oct 08 10 at 8:08 pmComments book – ADDICTED TO HATE By Jon Michael Bell
http://www.archive.org/details/AddictedToHate
about “reverend Phelps” parenting, hate etc
CHAPTER TWO
“Daddy’s Hands”
Mark Phelps feels nauseated whenever he remembers that night. He was hit over 60 times and his brother, Nate, over 200 with a mattock handle. Nate went into shock. Mark didn’t. A boy who became a compulsive counter to handle the stress, Mark counted every stroke. His and Nate’s. While their father screamed obscenities and his brother screamed in pain. Every 20 strokes, their mother wiped their faces off in the tub. Nate passed out anyway.
That was Christmas Day.A mattock is a pick-hoe using a wooden handle heavier than a bat.
Fred swung it with both hands like a ballplayer and with all his might. “The first blow stunned your whole body,” says Mark. “By the third blow, your backside was so tender, even the lightest strike was agonizing, but he’d still hit you like he wanted to put it over
the fence. By 20, though, you’d have grown numb with pain. That was when my father would quit and start on my brother. Later, when the feeling had returned and it hurt worse than before, he’d do it again. “After 40 strokes, I was weak and nauseous and very pale.
My body hurt terribly. Then it was Nate’s turn. He got 40 each time. “I staggered to the bathtub where my mom was wetting a towel to swab my face. Behind me, I could hear the mattock and my brother was choking and moaning. He was crying and he wouldn’t stop.” My mom was right there, but she wouldn’t help me. It hurt so badly during the third beating that I kept wanting to drop so he would hit me in the head. I was hoping I’d be knocked out, or killed…anything to end
the pain. ”“I can’t describe the basic animal fear you have in your gut at a time like that. Where someone has complete power over you. And they’re
hurting you. And there is no escape. No way out. If your mom couldn’t help you…I can’t explain it to anyone except perhaps a survivor from a POW camp.”“One of my earliest memories…,” the voice in the phone pauses, painful to remember: “was the big ol’ German shepherd that belonged to
our neighbors. One day it was in our yard and my father went out and blew it apart with his shotgun.”One day when Mark was a teenager, he came home to find his mom sitting on the lip of the tub, blue towel on her head, her lips pursed with anger and hurt. “Do you know what your father did today?” she asked. To Mark, it felt surreal. His mother never spoke out nor vented her emotions. She seemed quite different just then. He looked at his father. Pastor Phelps was standing across the room with his arms folded, smiling (the bathtub was in the parents’ bedroom). “No,” said Mark. “I don’t know.” His mother stood up and whipped the towel down her side. “He chopped my hair off,” she announced, tears coming to her eyes. The son stood aghast at the grotesque head before him. His mother’s former waist-length hair had been shorn to two inches- and even that showed ragged gouges down to the white of the scalp. “Why?” he asked. “Your father says I wasn’t in subjection today,” she replied.
Sometimes Pastor Phelps preferred to grab one child by their little hands and haul them into the air. Then he would repeatedly smash his knee into their groin and stomach while walking across the room and laughing. The boys remember this happening to Nate when he was only seven, and to Margie and Kathy even after they were sexually developed
teenagers. Nate recalls being taken into the church once where his father, a former golden gloves boxer, bent him backwards over a pew, body-punched him, spit in his face, and told him he hated him.
Marj commented on Oct 09 10 at 12:20 pmAmen Manjari.
Jonathan commented on Mar 03 11 at 10:52 amFred Phelps and his cult may never die. God certainly doesn’t want them…and neither does the Devil!
Abu Butros commented on Jul 09 11 at 6:56 amThe great “blocked” in my life with God
“For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have kept the faith.”
About more than 44 years, I finally found a man who deceives us; Christian or Muslim, and Jews living in tolerance and peace
Bouazza Mesrour
It comes from a farming family who have accompanied a group of peasants from a tribe called Mezab, south of Casablanca.They fled the famine happened in 1944, they built huts out of town, each family a shack, Bouazza’s family were also a family, no water no light relieve themselves in buckets, Bouazza grew up in this slum, was equal as their peers in this neighbourhood, are hatred and spirit of revenge against society,
David Goldman
This man was under cover as a missionary, American, Zionist right-wing president of this group.
The meeting of David Goldman and Bouazza Mesrour
Goldman found Bouazza was young hiker poor, uneducated, only able to read and write Arabic, who sells shampoo, and player three cards, on the square of Korea in Casablanca where thieves and sellers of hashish. Many mobs
Then Goldman already has a body to mould to this, a vagabond, Bouazza also found in the lost paradise Goldman
Then as the Zionist was ready, we Bouazza drawing a future full of good life, with houses and cars flying in the air at any point in the world, and so on. Something I never had told the farmer, nor seen him, even dreaming in a dream in your life.
As Bouazza who have no conscience, no morals or culture of nationalism, has opened his heart, giving Goldman seed please;
1) Hate the Arab world, Islam. With all the media, books and video secret worship meetings without informing the faithful in good faith, who are deceived without noticing that this renegade betrayer leads to anarchy and destroy the progress and development. (Morocco)
2) Prepare to change the thoughts of children, put it against their culture, their religions.
3) Raise a war between the three religions that live peace harmony in Morocco, of insulting the prophet Muhammad to Muslims and Islam, reject the Koran and the haditt and mocked them.
4) Bouazza was more excellent than his master Goldman, to join the Polisario separatists who abduct children from their family Tindof in Algeria, led him to Spain where Spanish and Latino families in Andalusia where he is responsible for giving courses Bouazza against his country. When they are ripe to take them to Cuba Polisario camp.
So, Goldman sent Bouazza to Lebanon to a Bible school, under cover, to study causes, but the truth is to be prepared Mossad, learned English there, and returned to Morocco disguised as evangelical pastor.
The Great discovered in my life
Bouazza, lived among us as Christians, we deception for over 44 years, not alone believers in Morocco, to the faithful around the world, believers church missions and groups at last have discovered that not one drop of faith, was just as mercenary as the missionaries, who have neither religion nor country.
The avant missions half the cave of the thieves and their three mercenaries;
1) Mesrour Bouazza, addresses economic seek ways by what they call gospel work, but the truth is to attack Morocco all means, but the gospel is himself says,
“GOD IS LOVE”2) Youssef El Jabiri, deals with the vain propaganda, thousands of Muslims are leaving Islam to Christians ago
3) Rachid Lhmami in USA gave a TV set. To attack the Muslim world his prophet and his teaching at the place of preaching the gospel of peace and tolerance, streams of the Ulema of the Muslims,
Friends and brother thank you for this discovery, and I am not being deceived all my life, I also the Lord for this opportunity to inform all believers, for this dangerous mercenary
Now I can rest assured I’m hoping after this great work of love and peace and the Lord
Ahmed
This is the address of this deceiver;
Media Centre Málaga Spain
Tele 952 43 15-42
Address: 3-Atabal Surinam. 29190 Málaga. Spain—————–
El gran “tapado” en mi vida con Dios
“Porque yo ya estoy para ser sacrificado, y el tiempo de mi partida está cercano. He peleado la buena batalla, he acabado la carrera, he guardado la fe.
Cerca de más de 44 años, por fin he descubierto, un hombre que nos engaño; Cristiano, o musulmán, y judíos, que viven en tolerancia e paz
Mesrour Bouazza
Viene de una familia campesina que han acompañado un grupo de campesinos de una tribu se llama Mezab, al sur de Casablanca.Huyeron del hambre que paso en el 1944, construyeron chabolas fuera de la ciudad, cada familia una chabola, la familia de Bouazza también eran una familia, sin agua sin luz hacen sus necesidades en cubos, Bouazza creció en este barrio de chabolas, era igual como sus compañeros de este barrio, llevan odio y espíritu de venganza, contra la sociedad,
David Goldman,
Este hombre estaba debajo de una cobertura como misionero, americano, sionista de la extrema derecha, presidente de este grupo.
El encuentro entre David Goldman y Mesrour Bouazza
Goldman, encontró Bouazza, era joven pobre excursionista, sin educación, solo saber leer e escribir en árabe, vendedor de champú, y jugador de tres cartas, en la plaza del korea en Casablanca donde hay ladrones, y vendedores de hachich. Mucha chusma
Entonces Goldman ya tiene una masa para moldearla, a este, vagabundo, también Bouazza encontró en Goldman el paraíso perdido
Entonces como el sionista era listo, le dibujo a Bouazza un futuro lleno de buena vida; con coches casas y volar en el aire en cualquiera punto en el mundo, etc. Algo que nunca el campesino le había contado, ni le había visto, ni siquiera soñando, en sueños en su vida.
Como Bouazza que no tienen conciencia, ni moral ni cultura del nacionalismo, le ha abría su corazón, que Goldman siembra lo que da la gana;
1) odiar el mundo árabe, el Islam. Con todos los medios, libros videos reuniones secreta como adoración sin dar cuentas los fieles de buena fe, que están engañados sin dar cuenta que este renegado traidor les lleva, a la anarquía y destruir el progreso y el desarrolle del país. (Marruecos)
2) preparar cambiar los pensamientos de los niños, ponerlo en contra de su cultura, es sus religiones.
3) levantar una guerra entre las tres religiones que viven paz armonía en Marruecos, de insultar Mahoma el profeta de los musulmanes, y el Islam, desprecian el Corán y el haditt y se burlaba de ellos.
4) Bouazza fue mas excelente que su maestro Goldman, al unirse a los separatistas del frente POLISARIO que raptan los niños de su familia de Tindof en Argelia, le llevan a España donde hay familias españoles y latinos en Andalucía donde se encarga Bouazza para darle cursos contra su patria. Cuando ya están maduros les llevan a Cuba al campamento de los POLISARIO.
Así fue, Goldman le envió Bouazza a Líbano a una escuela bíblica, debajo cobertura, de estudiar etiología, pero la verdad es ser preparado del Mosad, allí se aprendió el ingles, volvió a Marruecos disfrazado como pastor evangélico.
El Gran descubierto en mi vida
Bouazza, vivió entre nosotros como cristiano, nos engaño durante mas de 44 años, no solos a los creyentes en Marruecos, también a los fieles en todo el mundo, creyentes iglesias misiones y grupos, al fin descubierto que no tienen una gota de fe, solo era mercenario igual como los misionarios; que no tienen ni religión ni patria.
La misio avant media la cueva de los ladrones y sus tres mercenarios;
1) Mesrour Bouazza, se ocupa buscar medios económico por lo que llaman obra evangélica, pero la verdad es para atacar Marruecos de todos los medios, pero el evangelio en se mismo dice; “DIOS ES AMOR”
2) Youssef El Jabiri; se ocupa de la propaganda vana; que miles de los musulmanes vienen al Cristianos dejando el Islam atrás,
3) Rachid Lhmami, en USA le dieron un puesto TV. De atacar el mundo musulmán su profeta y su enseñanza, en el lugar de predicar el evangelio de la paz y la tolerancia, rieras de los ulemas de los musulmanes,
Amigos y hermano doy gracias por este descubrimiento, y no me dejo ser engañado todo mi vida, también el Señor me doy esta oportunidad de informar a todos los creyentes, de este peligroso mercenario
Ahora ya puedo estar tranquilo estoy esperando después esta gran labor por el amor y la paz y El Señor
Ahmed
Esta es la dirección de este engañador;
Málaga Media Centre
Tele 952 43 15-42
Dirección: Calle Surinam 3 -Atabal. 29190 Málaga. España
cb commented on Jan 04 12 at 1:38 pmWestboro Baptist Church spreads its hate through picketing in our streets, provoking attacks, with abusive language and flag desecration, attempting to create a confrontation. This is not a church, this is a hate group. This is not about protesting, freedom, or God. They are in it for the money and the press; this is a family law firm. They are not a “church.” It is a scam. They go after anything that can get them in the news. This is a family of lawyers using this “god hates you” thing to make money. It is time for this scam and the hate to end.
The church has received money from lawsuits and legal fees. For example, they sued the city of Topeka several times in the 1990s. WBC received $16,500, and is pursuing another $100,000, in legal fees for a case won in court. The WBC is considered a nonprofit organization by the federal government, and is therefore exempt from paying taxes!
Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church is shown admitting on camera that her oldest son was born out of wedlock. Hypocritical Phelps-Roper’s vocal condemnation on strangers having sexual congress outside of marriage while she herself was guilty of the same. They are NOT what they say they are!!
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