Merged Fred Phelps nearly dead/Is dead.

He is demised, a bleeding stiff, bereft of life,he has joined the chior invisible...
He is an Ex Bigot.

Still think the best counter demonstration I ever saw was when he and his followers descended on Comic Con in San Diego and a counter demonstration was quickly organized....

Best banner: "God Hates Sentinels".
 
Dr. Keith said:
I was looking for the sarcastic wit in this post and then I saw who posted it. I broke out in a very wide smile. Thank you.
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She is right.... he did lead an eventful life. We may hate him... but he is a fascinating character.
 
Caper said:
She is right.... he did lead an eventful life. We may hate him... but he is a fascinating character.
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It is quite fascinating how some people can so obviously and horrifically evil. I can't imagine what it would take to make me act like that. I'd like to know why he did, but we'll never get the chance.
 
ehcks said:
It is quite fascinating how some people can so obviously and horrifically evil. I can't imagine what it would take to make me act like that. I'd like to know why he did, but we'll never get the chance.
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It's kind of a weird thing with me.... I never despised Phelps.....in the kind of way you don't despise a shark or lion for biting someone.... I don't even think it would have bothered me all that much if it was a loved one of mine..... it's like I see him as kind of an animal.
 
I won't celebrate his death per se, but just the final, hopefully agonizing days leading up to it.
 
Janadele said:
At 84 years, he has had a long and eventful life.
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Mostly as a failure; mailed politician (unelected), failed lawyer (disbarred for ethical violations), failed parent (domestic abuser and unable to support the family), failed pastor (excommunicated by his own), failed leader (known only as kook).
Pathetic really.

Moon-Spinner said:
Will there be picketing and protesting surrounding his funeral???
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Assuming they can find a gravesite.
 
Cleon said:
Out of curiosity, Janadele, do you think he's burning in Hell more for his not being a Mormon, or his incredible, burning hatred for his fellow human beings?
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Don't be silly. She's Mormon. They don't believe in Hell. He'll just be at the lowest level of paradise, along with Hitler.

Janadele said:
At 84 years, he has had a long and eventful life.
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He most certainly did.

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"Kathy's was my father's favorite," remembers Margie. "She had blue eyes and dark hair. She was very pretty and he would spoil her. He used to bounce her on his knee and sing 'The Yellow Rose of Texas' to her. But after she was about 15 or 16, they had nothing to say to each other. She'd be home, but she kept her distance from him. "And she was a bitch throughout her teen years. She was very mean to the rest of the kids. Kathy became very self-destructive back then, and she's stayed that way since." Concludes Margie: "I never understood why." Perhaps her brothers on the West Coast have a clue: "Then came a time when suddenly Kathy got in my dad's doghouse," relates Mark. "A boy had called once or something. From that time on, he commenced to beating her, and he stayed on her and stayed on her rear end that wouldn't l; because of how often and how severely she got beat. "He'd beat her routinely in the church, against the foundation pole. He'd beat her with mattock and then twist her arm behind her back. She'd be screaming- bloodcurdling screams-and all because someone had called her up on the telephone.

"Later, it got so if the phone rang and they hung up, he'd assume it was a boy looking for Kathy, and that she was 'doing' him, and then she'd get beaten for that. "And, on top of that, she and Nate were getting beaten several times a week for their weight. "Later, when Mark and Fred were in college," says Nate, "Mom would take everyone out to sell candy, but she'd leave Kathy home alone with Fred. She'd get beaten during those times, just like I had." Kathy tried to escape the nightmare called 'home' at the Westboro Baptist Church at least three times between the age of 17 and 18. Each time, the pastor found out where she was living and led a Phelps' quick-reaction team to literally snatch her away from her life and bring her back. In one incident, Kathy was living in a quiet Topeka neighborhood and dating a boy Mark knew from high school. "It was the summertime, about 6:30 in the evening," Nate recalls. "Her boyfriend pulled in to pick her up on a date. We'd been waiting for her to come out of the house, and when she did, we just swooped in. We had two cars. Mark was driving one and my dad the other. It was real 'Starsky and Hutch'. We blocked off the departing vehicle, and pulled her out of the car while her date just sat there stunned." "At home my father beat her terribly," says Mark. "It was then she was locked in her room for 40 days on nothing but water." Mark remembers one of the 'parental intercessions' was actually a kidnapping: Kathy was 18 when it occurred. Though she eventually finished college and graduated law school, according to some of her siblings, Kathy has yet to find resolution to her anger and self- destruction. In recent years, she has allowed her active status at the bar to lapse, waitressed at Topeka's Ramada Inn, been laid off, gone of public assistance, and been convicted on passing bad checks.
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A quite eventful life.

What do you think of his parenting style Janadele?

I think George Takei has the most merciful thing to say about Fred Phelps:

I take no solace or joy in this man's passing. We will not dance upon his grave, nor stand vigil at his funeral holding "God Hates Freds" signs, tempting as it may be.

He was a tormented soul, who tormented so many. Hate never wins out in the end. It instead goes always to its lonely, dusty end. - George Takei
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That said, I'll give the kids Fred Phelps abused, and the spirit of the first wife he probably murdered, a pass on dancing gleefully at his death.
 
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Moon-Spinner said:
Will there be picketing and protesting surrounding his funeral???
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I wouldn't like to see a hateful protest, but if people just happened to be loitering nearby carrying rainbow flags, that would be nice.
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I've seen the Phelps bunch up close, and the best thing you can do is ignore them.

...Let's forget you, better still...

Pete Townshend, Tommy
 
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