God Hates Westboro Baptist Church
4 August 2008 by Stardust
Fire reported at Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church
TOPEKA | The Topeka Fire Department is investigating a small fire outside of a church whose members protest at soldier’s funerals.
A fence and garage at Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church became engulfed in flames early Saturday, according to the Topeka Capitol-Journal Web site. The fire did not spread to the church building.
darn!
Topeka Fire Marshal Greg Bailey said the cause of the fire has not been determined. However, a spokeswoman for the church, Shirley Phelps-Roper, said she believes it was deliberately set.
Maybe goddidit!
Members of the church frequently picket military funerals, arguing that the deaths of U.S. troops overseas are part of God’s punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.
Bailey said damage is estimated at $10,000.
What does the Phelps family have to say about this on their Westboro Baptist Church blog?
“Yo, dummies! God is on his way and he’s got fire coming out his nostrils!” 
4 August 2008, on 4:22 pm
Nah, their god just wants them to walk to all their demonstrations from now on.
(That ought to reduce their range a bit.)
4 August 2008, on 4:27 pm
I’ll repeat what I said over at Pharyngula:
Now the Phelps gang will have to make new signs-
GOD HATES FENCES! and GOD HATES GARAGES!
4 August 2008, on 4:30 pm
I’m surprised none of them Westboro retards have been shot at yet.
4 August 2008, on 4:40 pm
Travdawg, It will eventually happen, and then they will say that they welcome it to show how god hates something or other. They will welcome the violence against them. They are sickos.
Sometimes I wonder if they aren’t some sort of satire group…not real and just pretending to get some sort of attention for whatever reason. They’re just too absurd.
4 August 2008, on 10:15 pm
I wonder if it even occurs to them at all that this may be their god’s punishment against them. They are so quick to assert that any bad things that happen to other people is god’s judgement for their evil ways, so why are they not immune to that?
But I suppose coming to that conclusion would be a rational, reasonable thought, and these people really don’t seem to be capable of that.
4 August 2008, on 11:01 pm
Stardust:
What can I say? Fuck those assholes, too bad they weren’t in the garage when it happened.
5 August 2008, on 12:57 am
Remember that Australian satire show that sent a reporter to cover one of their “protests” and he starting hitting on one of the men and the entire group just converged on him like lions to a zebra?
5 August 2008, on 7:52 am
Phelps has major issues. You are what you hate!
5 August 2008, on 9:21 am
Will Fred and his dentally-challenged Deliverance* Detail be protesting the funeral of their own garage- their never married, amateur interior designing, show tune lyric knowing garage?
*
“You are what you hate“?
Orzo, does that make me a mushroom, a spider, or a raw tomato?
5 August 2008, on 9:44 am
I doubt I could muster up a single drop of polite sympathy even if I wanted to. And I don’t.
Sucks to be them. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving group of people. Here’s hoping their insurance is lapsed or better yet that the company just decides it’s arson and therefore they don’t have to pay. Let ‘lawyer’ phelch spend the next ten years trying to get his insurance payoff. HA!
Poor mr. phelch. Probably lost his favorite jebus shaped butt plug in the fire.
5 August 2008, on 9:54 am
I don’t know, Rain… do you start a church organized around the hatred of mushrooms? Do you tell spider-friends they are going to hell? Do you picket outside restaurants that serve tomatoes? (Let me admit that I am not a closet musk melon, either)
Maybe I should say you are what you hate with an single-minded and unreasoned passion.
5 August 2008, on 10:11 am
And then of course there’s the notion that the miserable fuckers burned the place themselves as part of their plan to avoid paying the huge settlement that was handed down against them recently.
Orzo: perhaps not ‘you are what you hate’ but more “Me thinks the lady doth protest too much” The hate is so over the top and over blown one can only assume it hides a deeper truth.
He is gay and hates himself. Thus the insanity that is the fred phelch church of the holy douche bag.
He clearly has some serious mental issues. He’d probably do well with a regular shot of thorazine and some therapy. Or perhaps just a shovel to the back of the skull. Who knows it might realign something in there and smarten him up.
5 August 2008, on 12:09 pm
The hate is so over the top and over blown one can only assume it hides a deeper truth.
That’s what I think, too. I have even been wondering if they aren’t just acting for some reason, or are they all mentally damaged inbreds? They never say what people are supposed to do other than stop being homosexual. Other than that, what? Jump on the hate bandwagon and start singing hate songs? This is one of the most outrageous whackadoo groups I have ever seen in my lifetime.
5 August 2008, on 2:41 pm
That’s what I think, too. I have even been wondering if they aren’t just acting for some reason, or are they all mentally damaged inbreds?
I also agree that Fred Phelps definitely has some issues. I think that he probably has experienced some homosexual attraction, and because he is ashamed he’s spreading this hate to try to atone and deny his feelings.
As for the rest of the Phelps clan, there probably are some who have gay leanings, but I really doubt that most of them do. In a way, I see some of the ones who have grown up with this man as victims. Yes, it is totally disgusting and wrong that they have followed him and they aren’t completely blameless. But maybe they are afraid to do otherwise or just don’t have the strength to break away. I know that the ones who have quit the church have been totally cut off by the rest of them, and that would be hard.
I honestly can’t say that if I was in the same position as them that I wouldn’t be like them, too. Maybe I would have been able to break away, but maybe not.
5 August 2008, on 3:26 pm
The things they say are so outrageous it’s *like* parody. “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” ?! I am having a hard time getting my head around this. Who thought up that one? They are trying to provoke an attack on themselves, that much is clear.
The way I look at it, all kidding aside, whether the guy has gay leanings or not, I think it says a lot about a person when he frames his whole existence in terms of what he is not. I mean, what else is in this guy’s life, besides the business of not being gay? Does he swim, watch soccer, play the trumpet? Or is he consumed day and night with his opposition to homosexuality? On a personal level, he isn’t going to get back the time he has wasted on this effort. It’s insane and useless. I don’t feel sorry for him; he has a free will. It would be easier for him to change his thoughts than for me to change my preference.
Dear Fred: did you think a thought today that was gay-neutral?
5 August 2008, on 4:01 pm
I don’t feel sorry for Fred either. Sorry if my comment may have sounded like I did. Sexual preference can’t be changed, but if he truly had those feelings he chose to deal with them in the worst possible way.
As I said before, I do feel sorry for his family. He has warped them.
5 August 2008, on 7:32 pm
These guys just show me how far society has to go before we can lay any real claim to grand words like “civilized” or “rational.”
It’s not what they do that bothers me, but the reactions of many of my fellow citizens. I had heard of the Phelps clan a little before the picketing of soldier’s funerals, because I enjoy keeping up with the freaks. The only people making a fuss were those who consider themselves pro-gay rights. Nobody else seemed to care, and it wouldn’t surprise me if many religious conservatives were happy about their activities.
Then the started picketing the soldiers’ funerals. Now everybody hates them(as I’m sure they prefer) and they get all kinds of press. But only on the lefty end of the internet is there any real outrage about their message itself. They preach hatred all day, every day. But for lack of power, they would see other humans have their rights stripped and submit us ALL to the law of their revealed god. But 99% of the criticism they get is for being offensive to the families of soldiers.
I would like to go to one of their funeral protests with a sign of my own. It would read:
God loves Fags! But your son is still in Hell because he was a Voluntary Mass Murderer!
5 August 2008, on 9:12 pm
I keep waiting for some justifiably irate marines at a buddy’s funeral to throw down on these hyenas and reduce them to mewling puddles of goo. Hell, if they’d come around my neck of the woods, I’d be sorely tempted.
6 August 2008, on 3:07 am
The thing is, I think these folks’ biblical scholarship is spot-on. The Bible really does say what they say it says, and the weight they give to ghod’s divine hatred really is backed up by the text. How they can go on believing in that sort of ghod is a mystery, but I don’t have any reason to believe they’re not for real.
I think they’d be a fine argument for atheism, except that most folks who claim to believe in the ghod of the bible won’t ever see that the Phelps crowd have pretty much nailed what the bible really says.
6 August 2008, on 7:38 am
I respectfully disagree that there is anything like “scholarship” involved, but I think I understand what you’re saying. Look at it this way: the bible says a lot of other things they cheerfully ignore. What about the love for money? It doesn’t single out homosexuality as the one most important sin. They’ve got a thang over there at Westboro.
6 August 2008, on 12:31 pm
I know this is totally silly…but…in some ways…
what isn’t?
GiffSters: “How do you KNOW that, ChuckA?”
“Because I minored in silliness in my college days…need any more proof?…so there!”
Ok…where am I going with this self-absorbed, intrusive comment?
Freds last name kinda ‘revealed’ itself to me; you know, like those things that are right “under your nose” for many years, that somehow eluded notice?
It’s just the name…
Phelps…or…P + helps. Now, just musing a bit; what would the P stand for in the original creating of a name?
Prick?…Pussy?…Panties?…Parachute?…Pliers?…Pfucking?
[I'm skipping, of course, any historical, cultural, (sensible?) or linguistic REALITY for the sake of silliness.
Or like some Asians who have trouble pronouncing "r"s...Fred has trouble with "h"s? So the ph allows for the use of "F"?
Have I lost you yet, with that bit of bullshit?
You get the picture. And, of course...who the pfuck was HIS dad, etc.? Now that I've reached THAT particular silly shtick's dead end; I'm guessing (wildly!) that the "Intention" [ala Dr. Wayne Dyer?] of demented Freddie was possibly to imply some, religiously motivated, “helpful” activity…ala…
“Hi, I’m Pastor Fred…Let me phelp you…PLEASE!”…or just responding to…
“Phelp me, I’m being repressed!” Or…
“Would it phelp you at all, if I stick this buybull up your ass?”…or…
“Gawd phelps those who phelps themselves!”…or…
[Your turn!]
I guess this silly trek COULD lead to a new, imaginary verb daffy-nition entry…something like:
phelp:
1) to fuck over with insane, moronic, religious claptrap (OK…bullshit)
2) to aggravate and intrude on others, with complete, obnoxious, insensitivity.
3) to act like a complete idiot in full view of the greater publics’ scrutiny
Etcetera!
Now that I’ve passed on to y’all that, obviously and completely inane little “name revelation”…
In light of that…may I weasle out of this little made-up phelping conundrum with:
“You know something, GifSters?…That pfucking Phelps pfamily sure phelps a lot of people!
And maybe it’s way past time for the Phelps to get a whole lot of phelping from other phelpful phelpers!…?
6 August 2008, on 7:00 pm
Believe it or not, a feel a little sorry for this panty-twisted closet-queer and his band of twinkle-toed, dentally-challenged misfits. Being from the midwest, I’ve seen their protests. Their earnestness is outweighed only by their tenacity to one single cause.
Harboring that kind of anger and hatred, day and night, cannot be good for anyone. To be fueled by it can only lead to a miserable existance. Even if he isn’t stifling homo-erotic urges, Phelps (and his ilk) have to be in a lot of pain by now.
7 August 2008, on 1:06 pm
i doubt any member of this group has an IQ over 110,which basically tests common sense,so i could see how these toothless inbreds could be so easily fooled to believing the bullshit they are told.It is a hate cult masked by the face of religion.They are all so wrapped up in their own stupidity to realize it.And if they are so concerned about the U.S. role in the Iraq war,why dont they start protesting at the source,instead of being obnoxious jackasses and protesting at funerals.The only time i feel bad for these people is the simple fact that they are wasting their lives in a false pursuit.Im sure this “cult/church” will fall apart like many before it…….if only they would stay like that.
9 August 2008, on 12:55 pm
Well as a albertan id sure as hell would love to see you come here and post one sign that says God Hates Canada Fred Phelps beware theres one canadian that will Stand up to you face to face for spreading hate in canada Ill now welcome you to calgary alberta canada Mr Fred Phelps ill buy a canadian Flag if you got the balls to light it. right in front of me thats the day you would find out.that this canadian has big balls You seem to have some balls Fred Phelps so bring it on come light the flag. And to prove my point ill even start a collection to pay for your trip to calgary alberta canada dont make your self look bad now Mr Fred Phelps ill be posting this all over the net to prove your cowardly ways( this is posted and emailed to Fred Phelps home page as well. Does he have the balls ? ) As for Tim and his family God Bless. I just read more on the coward Fred Phelps and his followers he only gets .01 per cent of his emails this is what it says:”oh, and pastor phelps dosen’t do emails. if we think that your message is unique or interesting enough to pass on to him, he will get it”. As i thought coward hiding behind others pretty lame Well ill wait my time maybe one day ill come face to face with this coward Fred Phelps and hand him the canadian flag and a lighter ill put my life on the line are flag doesnt get burnt Mr Fred Phelps ill now pray every night for this to come true signed: One Pissed off Canadian.