He leads a congregation of about 70 people and calls himself a man of god but Fred Phelps is a preacher of hatred. Westboro Baptist church is based in Kansas but it's followers have made it their mission to demonstrate outside funerals of American soldiers, carrying signs and spewing out their inner demons in the name of their god. What is even worse than this scenario is that there doesn't seem to be any legal way to stop them. Common decency has always before taken care of such demonstrations. These church people have no sense of decency.
When I first saw news footage of the way this church behaves at soldiers' funerals, I was astonished. First because a godly church group would behave in such an evil way and then because no-one could stop them. Parents grieving at their young son or daughter's funerals had to endure a ratty group of Fred Phelp's followers who chanted hateful obscenities and carried signs denigrating their dead children.
Now this same group of "god's people" plan to demonstrate at Elizabeth Edward's funeral which will be held today. This is a group of evil, intolerant people portraying themselves to be honorable followers of a loving, but selective, god. Their god teaches hatred and they are eager disciples.
I can't even imagine how the presence of demonstrations like this would affect grieving family and friends at a funeral for their loved ones. The mental anguish would be excruciating to endure. I can't imagine why these awful people haven't been physically attacked by furious family members but I assume they are fully protected by police officers so this doesn't happen. I feel sorry for these poor police officers who are bound by an unfair law.
But one day Fred Phelps and his clan will get what's coming to them. One way or another.
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