David Pakman asks: What the difference between Dr. Laura & Westboro’s Shirley Phelps-Roper? [video]
Talk show host David Pakman said he looked up the beliefs of satellite radio advice guru Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and says he read that she supports religious “reparative therapy” for gay people. He asked his audience, if that’s the case, why wouldn’t people also ask for advice from someone like Shirley Phelps-Roper, a leader of the Westboro Baptist Church. (David Pakman)
Pakman made waves two weeks ago when he interviewed a former Navy Chaplain, Gordon Klingenschmitt, who claims that Christian soliders and chaplains would face persecution now that the ”Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban is to be repealed. Klingenscmitt then went on to say homosexuality was a “demonic disease” that could be cured through exorcism. In fact, he claimed to cure a lesbian sailor with a “foul demon of lesbian homosexuality” through a marriage ceremony to Jesus. (YouTube.com/Midweek Politics)
Pakman also conducted interviews last year with two opposing members of the Phelps family — Shirley Phelps-Roper who preaches that “God Hate’s Fags” and her estranged brother, Nate Phelps, who has denounced the practices of his father’s obsessively anti-gay family church.
On January 18, an angry and flailing Laura Schlessinger appeared on Fox News to lash out against an African-American woman who was the catalyst for her signing off the public airwaves. “Dr. Laura” called the woman a paranoid schizophrenic for asking, last year, for advice on dealing with in-laws who made racist remarks. Schlessinger had replied to the woman, in a shocking display of bad taste, with a comparison of her situation to black comics on HBO that say [N-word, N-word, N-word]. She was on Sean Hannity‘s show two weeks ago to claim that she had to write a book to defend herself against the fact that:
”People call me a homophobe and a racist — two of the farthest from true things you could call me.”
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