Kansas preacher tries Twin Falls for anti-gay monument

[Judi Lynn]

Kansas preacher tries Twin Falls for anti-gay monument


January 16, 2004 1:42 AM

The Associated Press

Twin Falls-AP -- The Reverend Fred Phelps of Kansas is now petitioning to erect an anti-gay monument in Twin Falls.

City officials are calling for written guidelines on memorials in city parks.

The Times-News ran an article last month about a program allowing people to memorialize loved ones in city parks by buying trees, park benches or picnic tables. The day after the article ran, Phelps contacted the board.
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[IndianaGreen]

1. Thank God for Sept. 11

What kind of sick fuck would carry a sign like this?



Even the most homophobic person should be outraged at the 9/11 sign, but they are not!

[leesa]

11. These people worship a hateful god. Their god is a reflection

of their hate and intolerance. I'm sure God is outraged with their behavior.

[SemperEadem]

30. can't he be identified as a domestic terrorist organization?

[snippy]

42. Even Satan would be outraged by their behavior.

[Melsky]

2. I can feel the Christian love!

God sent the sniper, and we are to thank him for 911. These people are beyond sick, it's just bizzarre and sad.

[tigereye]

3. These folks are truly disturbed

It seems like they just run from state to state spreading their hate.

[demdave]

4. It takes a cross state trek to find this many crazies

I think even Jerry Springer has to canvas the entire country. Let just be thankful they exhibit their stupidity out in the open.

[Okole]

7. I don't think they spread much of anything...

I would imagine 99.999999 (including conservatives) don't take them seriously at all and find their views repulsive.

[newyawker99]

24. Hi Okole!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[JusticeForAll]

28. Thank God for 9/11?!?!

Can someone explain what the hell they mean by that?

Huh?

[SemperEadem]

31. I wonder...

Phelps should be forced to face the widow(er)s of firemen, police officers and ordinary folks who died that day; or the folks who died from sniper fire. I'd like to hear what they they think about this sick picture and the fact that he allows his followers to degrade the memories of innocent people who were killed that day...

[NickB79]

43. Yep, me too

It warms my heart to see fellow Christians spreading Jesus's message of hate and intolerance to this day. <sarcasm>

[CO Liberal]

5. Fred Phelps & His Roving Band of Homophobes

A real traveling freak show......

[CO Liberal]

6. I Know What Fred Phelps Can Do With His Monument

He can stick it where the sun don't shine.

[Okole]

8. There are a lot of open minded and educated people in....

Twin Falls and Boise, I can't see this happening. If it does, I can't see the monument lasting past a week without being torn down.

[Endangered Specie]

9. So many things I would like to say and wish upon these people

But I'll bet 10-1 Itll get deleted in a heartbeat, and thatll be my 2nd in two days...

[chasqui]

26. Have you considered...

Anger Management?

[Danieljay]

10. the best way to deal with Phelps is

organizing fundraisers that people pledge money for every minute he protests a particular event. He is therefore, by being there, raising money for the very thing he despises. I've seen this work, and if done correctly, (so he knows and sees), works fairly well.

The man is obviously troubled, along with his brainwashed family, but as a an attorney he is very much familiar with his rights so that angle doesn't work very well. All I can say is that he is creating some terrible Karma.

[GinaMaria]

34. love that idea

and he needs frequent reminders that where he goes fund raising follows.

Another suggestion is to get Improv and second city type talent out there doing satire and comedy about this. Street theater will attract while his negativity repells. The more people like FP are laughed at and exposed as ridiculous the better thinking people will feel. I don't believe in dispensing Karmic justice. I believe in creating my own when I can. He's in his own hell right now.

FP gave a gay relative of mine the finger at a pride parade. I would be all too happy to donate to any fund raiser that counters this fool.

[MuseRider]

37. We did that here

in Topeka, his home city. He protests every one of our events. I play in the symphony and he is always there so we raised some money by doing that, not much but some. He actually donated, why I do not know.

[NYC]

41. Excellent suggestion.

It makes his demonstration time counterproductive.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. Oh look...It's the Church of Latter Day Hate Mongers

Led by Fred "Hate Your Neighbor As You Would Have Them Hate You" Phelps.

[damnyankee2601]

13. Picture source please?

Some of those signs are so silly they seem like a joke. Are we sure they're not faked? Let's not get all excercized before we check.

[Don_G]

14. Fred Phelps Isn't A Joke

He's a smug, religous right-wing terrorist who may practice what he preaches.

Landover Baptist Church in Kansas as I recall and another link here: http://www.wordwiz72.com/religterror.html

[mike1963]

18. NO, NO, it's Westboro! Landover is a really funny satirical site.

:D

[davidinalameda]

20. it's not landover

that's Betty Bowers' church

http://www.animaldefense.org/landover.html

[arwalden]

22. Landover Baptist Church Does Not Exist. It's Fictional Satire...

Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist is real and sickening.

-- Allen

[finecraft]

16. No joke...the signs are real

The "traveling freak show" was in town last week to further harass the kid that got punished in school for stating that his mom was gay. I can happily report that even though the Phelps freaks were allowed to protest in front of the kid's school and at the school board office, their group was very small (10-12 people). A larger group (50+) of local citizens supporting the kid and his moms set up next to them and let them know that their presence in our community was neither needed, nor wanted. The freaks stayed for a few hours and left.

[Danieljay]

19. I hate to promote this..

but his site is http://www.godhatesfags.com. I lived in Kansas before moving to the wonderful city of Portland Oregon and know first hand about this man and his misguided ways. Most of his followers are his brainwashed children and other family members. Its really a cult if you want my honest opinion. There are a few members of his family that have moved on and changed there name so they aren't associated with him. Oh, and lets not forget that God hates America too.. http://www.godhatesamerica.com. I'm not comfortable posting these but it exposes what these people are and perhaps open our eyes to what we can be up against. I caution anyone going to these sites, they are graphic and often provoke the same feelings towards those who post such things as those who are the provokers. Rise above it... Moderators, feel free to remove this post if I have violated any rules. I post these only for confirmation, not as a promotion.

[gator_in_Ontario]

27. He's for real

www.godhatesfags.com

[put out]

33. I've seen them up close and personal.

They are real, and really hateful and obscene. Saw them at a performance of "Stomp" outside the venue. Try explaining that sh*t to a 9 year old, excited to see a live stage performance.

To the poster suggesting donations to human rights organizations for every minute Phelps and his followers picket, I've done that. They were protesting some play being performed at a local high school. Money poured in, donated to an organization that supports HIV infected citizens. The Phelps group only lasted 23 minutes, if I recall correctly, but those who had pledged $$ ended up sending in much much more than 23 minutes worth.

[Occulus]

36. definitely not fake.

They pull this crap literally everywhere they go. I've even seen the congregations' kids holding the same type of signage.

[MuseRider]

38. NOT a joke.

I have known this family all my life. It was always something with them but this seems to have stuck. I had to explaing those signs to my children growing up. They are vile and hateful people and I see them every day of my life unless they are somewhere else spreading their perverted beliefs.

[noonwitch]

15. We need to ignore Fred Phelps

I wish the media would do the same. Anyone who would picket the funeral of a man who was brutally murdered that said that the deceased was burning in hell should not get the time of day from any media outlet.

[davidinalameda]

21. it's dangerous to ignore people like him

he's the poison that can seep into society and corrupt others

[arwalden]

29. He's A Cancer, A Virus. He Must Not Be Ignored.

Left alone and unanswerable he can only grow larger and stronger as he spreads his message of hate to others and then his "flock" does the same.

I'm reminded of Jim Jones and how HE too was able to brainwash others and whip them up into such a frothing frenzy that they would kill themselves. Why ELSE would SANE human beings behave that way and say the hateful things that they do??

-- Allen

[Fovea]

39. Oh No We Don't

We need to George Kennan them, surround them, to hedge them in, to follow their hillbilly caravans with our own. We need to shout them down every time they step foot out of the city of Topeka, which if they were responsible, would have already done so.

If Mr. Soros wanted to do something to improve America, he might hire enough lawyers to keep the whole extended litigious family in court for the rest of their natural lives. After that, Grover Norquist, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch and all the hate speech merchants.

Everything they do should be costly to them. Make them travel long distances to be surrounded and obscurred from the media and the public.

The way to fight entropy is to make stupidity painful.

[Dulcinea]

17. I think Phelps is a closet case.

I said it before & I'll say it again.

Anyone that obsessed with the private lives of others has to be in serious denial.

[SemperEadem]

32. how much you wanna bet Phelps is a closet gay?

the guilty make the most noise, you know...

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

23. Exactly what would an "anti-gay monument" look like?

For that matter, what would a "pro-gay monument" look like?

[GinaMaria]

35. Good question.

nude statues of a man and woman fornicating? Guess my imagination is pretty limited. Can't imagine and most likely don't want to know what he would come up with for a monument.

[baldguy]

25. Fred Phelps is a terrorist.

He should be treated like one.

[philosophie_en_rose]

40. Ahem.... Who hates America?

It's so interesting that liberals are vilified by Ann Coulter et al for hating America. Yet, they say nothing about Phelps.