All posts tagged "fred phelps"
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Former Westboro Baptist member talks about leaving “God Hates Fags” church
Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of Westboro's founder, realised she had to leave the church after conversations on Twitter
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Former Westboro Baptist Church member poses for NOH8 campaign
Libby Phelps-Alvarez, granddaughter of Fred Phelps, left the anti-gay church in 2009
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Westboro Baptist’s Fred Phelps dead
“When Americans were faced with the choice of accepting their LGBT neighbors or endorsing Phelps’s unfiltered hate, they chose the former. He showed anti-gay bigotry...
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RIP, Fred Phelps
While many people will be celebrating the death of Fred Phelps, whose name is synonymous with irrational hate and vitriol, I think that today the...
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Freedom To Hate
Some people make me sick. Case in point, any member of the Fred Phelps clan who has been involved in the Westboro Baptist Church's ongoing...
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Supreme Court Upholds Westboro Baptist Church Members’ Right to Picket Funerals
Although the U.S. Supreme Court today noted that “Westboro ’s choice of where and when to conduct its picketing is not beyond the Government’s...
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Wash Post “On Faith” Op-Ed: “Homosexual Movement” May Be to Blame for Suicides
From the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins: “Some homosexuals may recognize intuitively that their same-sex attractions are abnormal–yet they have been told by the homosexual...
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Snyder v. Phelps: The View From the Court
Photo: Attorney Sean Summers speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court following oral arguments in Snyder v. Phelps on Wednesday. Al Snyder, the father...
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''You're Going to Hell'' — But First, the Supreme Court
Matthew Snyder, who attained the rank of a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, died on March 3, 2006, in the Al Anbar Province...
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The Phelps Family: From Kansas to Columbus to the Supreme Court
On Wednesday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will be considering, as SCOTUSblog summarizes the matter, “Does the First Amendment protect protesters at a...
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Avenging Angel
Fred Phelps will never go away. That's the harsh reality Romaine Patterson has come to realize about Phelps, leader of the infamously homophobic Westboro Baptist...
