Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptist Church

A community portal about Westboro Baptist Church with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Westboro Baptist Church is a U.S. religious organization headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the website... [more]

A community portal about Westboro Baptist Church with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Westboro Baptist Church is a U.S. religious organization headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas. It runs the website GodHatesFags.com , and GodHatesAmerica.com, and other websites expressing condemnation of homosexuals, Roman Catholics, Muslims and other groups. The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League, and classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has achieved national notoriety in recent years due to their picketing of funeral processions for soldiers killed in combat, which functions as an extension of the Phelps' anti-United States beliefs.

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Westboro Baptist Church is coming to my area this upcoming week and I've started an economic counter protest (through Facebook) with people pledging $1/minute to the Matthew Shepard Foundation for every minute they're here. We've raised over 35,000 dollars so far -- and now I'm trying to brainstorm how to get some major blog coverage so we can up our donation amount even further. So far, I haven't really done much publicity for this movement...  
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Recently the anti-gay Westboro Baptist church congregation has turned to picketing Jewish places of education and worship, as they have announced they will do in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, on Dec. 6 and 7.  
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The notorious homophobes at the Westboro Baptist Church will take a break from picketing the funerals of dead soldiers to go after pop-punk outfit All Time Low. The "church" posted an explanation of the reasons for the protest in their schedule, but the gist is this: How do you know how far gone a society is? You look at their social icons. When you look at these gender-confused, haphazard freakazoids then you can plainly see that america...  
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To the Penn community, In response to the Westboro Baptist Church coming to Hillel this morning, different communities from across our campus have come together to turn an execrable message into a positive rallying point in our community. Today is a monumental occasion in Penn’s history; regardless of whether the Westboro Baptist Church actually comes, our diverse population has united as one in order to show that, despite our differences...  
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Students at Pembroke Hill High School stayed a little late to demonstrate in support of their school and against Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church.  
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Westboro Baptist Church, a hate group that travels around the country holding anti-gay rallies, protested outside the school attended by President Obama's children on Monday morning. The "church," run by Fred Phelps and composed largely of his extensive family, is known for staging its events for maximum publicity and controversy. In the past, members have demonstrated outside troops' funerals. Recently they have been targeting Jewish temples...  
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For members of Westboro Baptist Church - the hardcore right-wing Topeka outfit fronted by proud bigot Fred Phelps - Greater Boston is a missionary’s Graceland. In fact, we harbor enough of Westboro’s target demographics to warrant a six-stop, two-day picket tour through our queer-and-Jew-filled landscape. Knowing that authorities would arrange to protect their cowardly behinds, Westboro disciples gave ample warning about their coming crusade...  
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Megan Phelps-Roper of Topeka's infamous gay hating Westboro Baptist Church has caught the eye of a couple of famous funnymen on Twitter. Check out these tweets from The Office star Rainn Wilson .....  
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Scheduled protests in Philadelphia and Cherry Hill next week by the Westboro Baptist Church, a virulently anti-gay and anti-Semitic church based in Kansas, have presented local groups and residents with a quandary.  
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The Westboro Baptist Church cult is notorious for their ultra-fundamentalist anti-gay stunts, but this one crosses another line for them — as they picket a school attended by the Obama children. Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside Sidwell Friends...  
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We’ve debated before whether Westboro Baptist Church is worthy of newsprint. Probably not. But the group likely won’t go away if we simply ignore it, which seems to be what The Washington Post had in mind when leaving any mention of Westboro out of this story about their protest at the school the Obama girls attend. Read more on Westboro’s swing at anti-Semitism…  
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Coming around again: The Westboro Baptist Church is returning to Albany, N.Y., to protest The Laramie Project, being staged in response to an earlier Westboro protest.  
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Posted by Rebecca Armendariz, Online Editor | Nov. 11 at 11:06 AM | RArmendariz@washblade.com The Blade was on site as Westboro Baptist Church protested veterans at Arlington National Cemetery today. Phelps and co. also "paid their respects" at the World War II memorial, the Holocaust Museum and the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.    
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As an atheist I can probably point to more positives about those that practice their faith than I can negatives. For every misguided and bigoted member of Topeka, Kansas' Westboro Baptist Church protesting at military funerals, there are countless more silent and compassionate people of faith doing what needs to be done. As appalled and outraged as I might be over the Westboro flock, I can be equally touched and humbled by the sacrifices of...  
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Members of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church, who think 9/11 was punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality and express their views on that issue by protesting the funerals of dead soldiers, were seen demonstrating outside of the school ...  
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