Fred Phelps Dead

Westboro Baptist Church founder has finally died. Now to see if he gets his just reward

Fred Phelps Dead

I heard on the radio the other day he was going into hospice care. Hopefully everyone will take the high road and ignore his funeral, rather than sinking to his level.

They need to put a toilet paper roll on his tombstone. YMMV.

I have no such hopes. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap" I think it says in some book he should have been familiar with...

edited for irony

Sorry, I might devolve to his level. Just this once.

stuart in mn wrote: I heard on the radio the other day he was going into hospice care. Hopefully everyone will take the high road and ignore his funeral, rather than sinking to his level.

No way, I want to see that satanist group do their "conversion to gay in the afterlife" ceremony over his grave...it's only fair IMO.

Don't dish it if you can't take it.

I'm thinking a long Conga line of gay soldiers dancing through the cemetery would be appropriate for the service followed by a 21 dong salute

Best thing to do is ignore him. Don't give him the attention he would want.

They're probably going to dredge up some archaic law and sue whoever protests anyhow.

Cone Junkie, you win.

Wasn't there some news blurb about him being 'excommunicated' by his son who now runs the church?

stuart in mn wrote: I heard on the radio the other day he was going into hospice care. Hopefully everyone will take the high road and ignore his funeral, rather than sinking to his level.

Agree.

Picketing or otherwise showing up just give these Shiny Happy People the attention they crave.

Ahh here it is: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/fred-phelps-excommunicated-wbc_n_4981300.html?ir=Religion

Looks like there will be no opportunity for picketing:

Speculation about the funeral arrangements for Phelps may be pointless, as a WBC member previously told The Huffington Post that WBC does not believe in having funerals or memorials because "We don't worship the dead in this church, so there'd be no public memorial or funeral to picket if any member died."

They seem like such nice people....

Let's give him the attention he deserves. Which is to say move along.

...and nothing of any value was lost.

-yawn-

That's tragic.

I hope he's ready for an eternity of fire and poking.

http://www.thegodarticle.com/7/post/2014/03/a-prayer-for-fred-phelps.html

Praise his noodly goodness!

In reply to ultraclyde:

Yes he was.

ultraclyde wrote: Ahh here it is: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/17/fred-phelps-excommunicated-wbc_n_4981300.html?ir=Religion Looks like there will be no opportunity for picketing:

"We don't worship the dead in this church..."

...says a group that is supposedly Christian.

In reply to foxtrapper:

I was going to post something witty and scathing. Then a read your link. I'm glad I read that first.

Thanks.

Jerry wrote: Let's give him the attention he deserves. Which is to say move along.

while do I agree with you, I can't help but suggest building an outhouse over his grave.

We will never understand the man or his hatred.. but we can understand and learn from the legacy he has left us. In many ways I wonder if he didn't actually -help- the GLBT movement by bringing the hatred out into the open in a way we could all ridicule and force us to really wonder why we could hate somebody who is really not all that different from you and me.

In the end he was a caricature and the personification of the hatred felt towards those that seem different and perhaps a little scary, but by doing so, he became our demon and maybe we have finally laid him to rest.

if only it wasn't satire:

SLAYER to protest Westboro Baptist leader Fred Phelps funeral