Finally, someone is protesting the world’s most odious protester. The Million Fag March is set for Sunday morning, March 30 in Topeka, Kan., home of Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church.
Fred and his family (13 children and 54 grandchildren) show up at military funerals with signs reading, “God Hates Fags,” “God Hates America,” “Fags Die, God Laughs,” etc. Fred apparently arrives at these insights after personal discussions with The Creator wherein He tells Fred that everything bad that happens in the world is His revenge for America “tolerating” gays.
Organizers say it’s time to “show Phelps and his church that freedom of speech works both ways.”
One of Phelps’ horribly misguided supportersThere are two big challenges with the march. First is the laws passed in Topeka to protect other churches from Phelps. They prohibit the Freds of the world (of which, mercifully, there are few) from getting within 50 feet of a house of worship for a half-hour before or after services are planned. So the march might have to take place in Topeka but not too close to Westboro Baptist.
The second challenge could be even harder. Organizers are determined to keep the protest peaceful, but since Fred’s whole goal is to whip up feelings of intolerance and hate, not responding in kind will be a toughie. Still, the expectation is clear.
Absolutely. No. Violence. It doesn’t matter if Fred Phelps comes to the March himself and starts throwing punches. The police will handle it.
If you feel that you could in any way be provoked, do not plan on attending.
…The Phelps family uses hate speech to draw attention to themselves. To do that during the March would only be bringing ourselves down to their level. So, please, no hate speech on your signs, clothes, and mouths.
Besides, “God Hates Fred” signs are lame and obvious. You can do better. Sending the message you want to send without being blatantly hateful shouldn’t be all that hard for you.
If you’re anywhere near Topeka, please plan to attend the march. You can sign up here. If you’re not, organizers need donations for costs associated with permitting, security, etc. so your donations are welcome.
Yes, not ignoring egregious offenses or allowing bullies to have the last word is the right approach. Any other questions?
What fred phelps does is very Wrong to say the least. Something obviously went badly wrong somewhere. I’m fairly certain they don’t resort to violence. I think he is just a general pain in the ass and hurtful buffoon. He has no power, unlike falwel BIH, dobson robertson etc. Believe it or not he was once a civil defense layer.wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps#Civil_Rights_Attorney
The folks that have the power don’t run around with signs! they are in the ivory towers/ churches. protesting fred phelps is like picking on a retarded kid. IMHO
Go after the big fish…
oops correction ~ civil right attorney
This is a great idea. Best wishes to all who march. I’m straight, but I wish I could be there.
Personally I’d love to go up to Fred Phelps and pop him a good one, but this is just the type of conflict he adores…anything that gets his pathetic little church in the news…
They don’t want violence…they want a lawsuit. Don’t give them the opportunity.
Maybe you’re right and all they want is to have the WBC in the news. But something has to be done. It will be an act of solidarity against people who preach hate and bigotry. There needs to be hope for a better future for those in the GLBT community. We have to try.
i really appreciate what the “marchers” are trying to accomplish. i understand the philosophy that by giving them energy we give them power, or by paying attention to people like fred phelps we only give in to his deep-seated need for attention. that being said, too many times these types of philosophies are used as an excuse for why you didnt do anything. i hear this excuse in so many different forms. the truth is, most times you dont say anything to a bully because you are afraid, and so because you are afraid you rationalize that with the reasoning that you are doing the right thing by ignoring him. you arent ignoring him, you are hiding. a true bully does not care how many times you beg him to stop, or the blank look on your face when he is calling you names. he is feeding off the fear you have, and in my life, bullies have never gone away because i acted as if they didnt exist. sometimes, confrontation is the answer, and i support those brave enough to confront fred phelps in any way they can.
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I send Fred a package of Kool-Aid each week. Included is a little note reminding him that it is past time for him and his little group to return home, so please mix up the Kool-Aid.
The Christians need Fred Phelps Instead of Mat Staver’s Promotion of Separation of Church and State
By Glynis Bethel
Thank GOD for Fred Phelps and Sally Kern of Oklahoma City and the reports that she had the courage to speak the truth of GOD’S word about the sodomites or “HOMOSEXUAL’S” wicked lifestyle.
On the contrary, I watched the California Supreme Court arguments featuring Mat Staver and I was appalled. I could not believe that someone, who has Mat Staver’s background, would go out of his way to LEAVE GOD OUT of his arguments which made his foundation obsolete.
Mat Staver looked and sounded like a FOOL! In the Bible, GOD told Jeremiah to speak ALL that He told him to speak or GOD would confound him. Thank GOD Jeremiah obeyed GOD. Unfortunately Mat Staver DID NOT.
Speaking of lukewarm, Mat Staver stayed in his comfort zone and refused to be hot like Judge Roy Moore…”MOORE OF GOD.”
I have emailed Mat Staver about his double-mindedness in refusing to do his legal arguments using the Holy Bible as his foundation.
The Apostle Paul stated that his words were NOT of man’s wisdom, but based on the power of GOD to paraphrase.
The HOLY BIBLE states that marriage is honorable in all, but wh0remongers and adulterers, GOD will judge. Also, GOD ordained that a man would leave his father and mother in order to be joined with his wife and the male and the female were naked and not ashamed. For starters, Mat Staver could have argued I Corinthians Chapter 7 which states that to avoid fornication that every man should have his own WIFE and that every woman should have her own HUSBAND.
Most importantly, the summation is gay marriages are wrong because GOD states that it is wrong in the HOLY BIBLE. If those sodomites could quote Shakespeare within their arguments, why didn’t Mat Staver quote GOD?
This is what the Bible is speaking of when it warns us that if we deny CHRIST before man that CHRIST would deny us before his FATHER. What are you afraid of Mat…being debarred?
It is ironic that Mat Staver promotes that there is no separation of church and state, but by his own actions, he promotes constant separation of church and state.
Mat Staver, in closing, please make up your mind and choose this day WHO you will serve and if you will one day decide to answer the great commission to go into all of the world and PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE which does not exempt plaintiffs, judges, magistrates, bailiffs, media, sodomites, etc.
Prophetess Glynis Bethel
REPENT or BURN in HELL Ministries
12724-D Highway 90
Loxley, Alabama 36551
251-964-9955
The march
Please do not be under the delusion that the Phelps gang are not violent. They love to provoke attacts with their vile language and it is not beneath them to take it further. I lived in Topeka a few years ago and know very well what they are like. They make a living suing people and they will sue someone for this demonstration, most probably the city of Topeka for allowing some assault to happen. They have sued the city before and won a sizable amount. Please, please, please, do not interact with them AT ALL during this march. Believe me they are planning well for this. I hope to make it for the march but if not, I wish everyone well.
Someone make sure that when he goes to meet his supposedly hateful maker, that we locate his grave.
All of us should stop by and take a leak as we pay our final respects!
Ms. Bethel is refreshing in that she recognizes that it is CHRIST that it is all about! With regard to Mr. Staver, I do not know the particulars, but you are certainly right about his ilk being ever ready to sell out, whoever is necessary, so that they can WIN, even if the argument(s) they are using are IRRATIONAL. Speaking of irrational, you fags and your wimp arguments about being peaceful are quite ridiculous. The very act of being a fag requires violence, add to that the act of gathering together in ANY number and you are geometrically multiplying the violence. You all are always whining around about civil rights and being treated equal. What about the rights of those individuals that you damage for life, when you impose your perverted filth! Just admit it, you are mad as hell that anybody has the audacity to tell you the truth about your filthy lifestyles and selves. Your very existence is an abomination. It disgusts me to think that I have to breath the same air that you breath. I am not supporting you and I never will. You think you want to exercise your FIRST AMENDMENT right to express your selves, but you are immediately ready to do violence toward God’s Church, it is God’s Church, NOT Fred Phelps’ church you dummies, when the human members of the church want to exercise that same right! I am praying that God kills you if you take it upon yourselves to raise your hand to damage any member of his church because that is EXACTLY what you would deserve!
Ah, Fred Phelps. A man and his family damned by God for so many sins. I doubt there is any hope for such unrepentant sinners. To commit so many mortal sins and then blame it on Him is blasphemy of an incredible magnitude. I will continue to pray for you and your family Mrs. Phelps-Griffin. But if you cannot accept God’s love and repent, your hate filled soul cannot be saved.
I don’t believe it!!
I get to tell Katherine Phelps-Griffin and Fred Phelps off in a forum!!!
So there, ya sick people.
*G*
I’ll bet there are grifters doing a better con job of lifting people’s wallets and tax dollars than you and your tribe.
But I’ll admit, you’ve ruint plenty of lives in yer time, and that just ain’t Christian.
And you do it gladly, with malice.
When your time comes, you’ll look upwards one last time, and KNOW, you were wrong in the lives you ruint.
And then, you’ll beg for the salvation you might actually believe in.
Till then, you are reviled by even the 23% for what you do.
*G*
How lonely it must be to be a Glynis or a Katherine. How lonely it must be to be living in such sin and error and poisonous self-aggrandizement. Got bad news for you, ladies…you do NOT speak for God. Only for yourselves. And in the end, you will be left shouting down the rainbarrel alone, while the real world where God is love just goes on turning…without you.