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.

Articles
In the theology of the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), God has a pretty long shit list. Read the colorful placards at the group’s daily demonstrations and you get the idea: “God Hates Fags,” “God Hates Fag Enablers,” “God Hates Obama,” “God Hates America,” “God Hates The World,” “God Hates YOU.”  
From tnr.com ()
More perspectives...
Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church is a hate group that goes around the country staging anti-gay rallies at some of the most inappropriate places (e.g. the funerals of former White House press secretary Tony Snow, victims of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, and U.S. troops) with messages like “Thank God For AIDS” and “God Hates Fags.” This [...]Raw Story (subscribe) : MSNBC anchor in Twitter fight over “God hates fags” protest at Sasha and...  
From rss.wikio.com ()
Related news:
More perspectives...
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.  
From feedburner.com ()
More perspectives...
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...  
From huffingtonpost.com ()
Related news:
More perspectives...
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.    
From feedburner.com ()
More perspectives...
Sponsors
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...  
From denverpost.com ()
More perspectives...
A 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10 hearing has been scheduled in U. S. District Court for a motion for a preliminary injunction against the city of Ballwin that would allow protests to be held at military funerals.The lawsuit is one of a half-dozen filed by Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., against Missouri cities. Ms. Phelps-Roper, the sister of church pastor Fred Phelps, is being represented by the American Civil...  
From blogger.com ()
Related news:
More perspectives...
Fred Phelps, founder and pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas and a man so far on the fringes of the radical religious Right even the late Rev. Jerry Falwell called him "a certified nut," brought his nationwide road show of hate to San Diego the weekend of October 16-18. Along with a number of synagogues and Jewish community groups, one of his picketing targets was San Diego High School for its alleged tolerance and...  
From indybay.org ()
Related news:
More perspectives...
This past weekend members of the Westboro Baptist Church brought their vitriolic message to Brooklyn. Known for picketing the funerals of soldiers with signs that read "GOD HATES FAGS" and similar wholesome messages, the Kansas-based group didn't get much traction with their protest, and were drowned out by about 200 counter-protesters. The extremist Christians had also rallied in front of Brooklyn Technical High School on Thursday. WATCH...  
From huffingtonpost.com ()
Related news:
More perspectives...
As if their hatefilled anti-Gay demonstrations, and repulsive protests at the funerals of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq weren't enough, the Westboro Baptist Church now intends to holler obscenities at Jews.This coming Saturday, the inbred kin of pastor Fred Phelps will be bringing profound dishonour to the Christian Religion by holding up signs that say "God hates Jews" outside Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn.See this post:http...  
From atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com ()
More perspectives...
Erica of Fucked in Park Slope was at Beth Elohim on Saturday and participated in the counter-demonstration when the anti-gay, anti-Jewish Kansas group picketed the synagogue. Here's an excerpt from her excellent report that also has great pictures. I just got back from the hate parade that the Westboro Baptist Church staged this morning in front of Temple Beth Elohim on Garfield and 8th Avenue. There's a bunch of shit that I want to tell you...  
From onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com ()
More perspectives...
Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for its "Love Crusades" picketing the funerals of American war dead and carrying signs such as "Thank God for 9/11", "God Hates America" and "God Hates Fags", is picketing schools and synagogues in Brooklyn these days, turning the High Holidays into the usual Westboro circus.Shirley Phelps-Roper, the Reverend Fred Phelps' daughter and current spokesman for the church, told Brooklyn newspapers that the rallies...  
From blogger.com ()
Related news:
More perspectives...
Photo: Westboro's protests at the Jewish Theological Seminary via Bwog The five people from the Westboro "Baptist" "Church" who picketed Brooklyn Tech yesterday were drowned out more by the hundreds of Tech students, counterprotesters, and Brooklynites chanting "We Love Jews" and shouting "Go Home" to the freaks from Topeka, who were outnumbered more than forty to one. The Times' Fort Greene blog noted that "many if not most" of the...  
From gothamist.com ()
More perspectives...
Despite widespread efforts not to publicize Thursday's protest by the Westboro Baptist Church group at North Central High School, about 200 people showed up in a counter-protest. Is it best to ignore the messages of groups like Westboro? Join Suburban Editor Kevin Morgan for an online chat starting at 1 p.m.  
From indystar.com ()
More perspectives...
Heartwarming story alert!: After Congregation Beth Elohim, one of the synagogues targeted by Fred Phelps's anti-semitic hate protests, found on Thursday that their roof had collapsed, Rabbi Andy Bachman called up Pastor Daniel Meeter of Old First Dutch Reformed Church in Park Slope to ask for help. Meeter immediately offered his church's facilities for Beth Elohim's Yom Kippur services tomorrow and Monday, saying he and his congregation would...  
From nymag.com ()
More perspectives...
You can improve this news page by changing its keywords and content sources.
Edit News
Sponsors
Top Current Events Articles
Lauren Johnson, 12-Year-Old Girl, Says She Sneezes 12,000 Times a Day
The middle schooler caught a cold two weeks ago, and can't seem to shake the urge to sneeze.
Andy House, Texas Man, Accidentally Drives 2006 Bugatti Veyron Into Salt Marsh
Marsh says he's had so many calls he's shut off his phone. Among the callers? Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Corri Fetman, 'Lawyer of Love,' Sued by 'Playboy' Over Title Trademark
The magazine filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming Fetman tried to trademark the title "Lawyer of Love" for her own practice.
More From Zimbio
Copyright © 2009 - Zimbio, Inc. Some rights reserved.