I believe it was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who said it best; “Sunlight is the best disinfectant”

What happened to the lib mantra of the 60’s that went something like;

I may not agree with what you say, BUT I will fight to the end your RIGHT to say it.

At least the libs had that going for them.

As I said, they’re crazy but not dumb.

If I were in prison and needed a crafty lawyer I’d like to have one of the Phred Felps kids on my side.

In fact, when I was arrested a couple of years ago for counter-protesting against the Felps clan’s demonstration against an Iraq War veteran’s funeral, I seriously considered hiring someone from the Felps Law Firm to defend me.

Alas, the county dropped the charges against me.

Fred Phelps Jr Department of Corrections Attorney A $55,239.00

Ernest Phelps Corrections Dept-Corrtnl Indus Manufacturing Manager $57,294.00

“I’d run over you to see the Who.”

HOWEVER, you can still be charged for inciting a riot if not. I mean, trampled to death running for the door could be considered a riot, couldn’t it?

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I can’t defend that Democrat’s hateful ideas.

They are just more honest about it.

His clan tried to demonstrate in front of my kids school.

A gay pride rally broke out!

It is unfortunate that Britain shields itself from this ugly but very real and larger than admitted side of America.

Banned, Certainly not; but that doesn’t mean that your brand of hate (and it is that) should go unopposed. I don’t want it banned, I want it to become inconceivable to the next generation of Americans that anybody could feel such animus.

Radio show insulter Savage (also banned) was being interviewed on NPR today. He insulted a caller twice and then hung up on the interview.

I once counter-protested Phelps walking WITH his family, carrying signage stating Phelps was a bigot. The family members spoke the most vile and insulting things to me… Amen!

“I wonder if I could incorporate my family into a “church” and carry signs reading “God HATES Cons!”

This is brilliant!”

Yeah, you could… if you were as brilliant as Phred Felps and his kids.

They may be crazy but they are not dumb.

Most of the kids run the Felps Law firm in Topeka and are recognized as crackerjack lawyers.

There is a school of opinion Phred was disbarred simply because he out-lawyered people back in the 60s when he was a leading voice for civil rights.

I’ve never been quite sure Phred is as crazy as he talks, or talks crazy as he does to keep up the tax scam he created with the Westboro Baptist Church.

I think (if possible) Shirley is crazier; doesn’t get Phred’s joke against authority and really believes all the crap she says. She’s one of the kids who didn’t make it to law school, but she compensates by pushing the “theology.”

Phred Felps is this generation’s Doc Brinkley (the goat gland doctor whose radio station eventually became KFDI).

Precisely the point. There are plenty of foreign voices (at the UN building in particular) I’d prefer were kept out and shut up.

C’mon fundies, get together and defend your spokesman on gay issues.

Due to DU of A (De-Cider’s Union of America) I need to take my mandated 2-1/2 hour break. You Brian, are now the De-Cider.

Good Luck and God speed, Brian, God speed!

I wonder if I could incorporate my family into a “church” and carry signs reading “God HATES Cons!”
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This is Hate Speech.

That is what I had thought and I do understand it.

I just wanted to be sure.

I wonder if I could incorporate my family into a “church” and carry signs reading “God HATES Cons!”

My house could become my “tabernacle,” my car the official “church business” car, and my dog a tax write off for “security.”

This is brilliant!

I’m trying hard to let that one go…

“Why would you even want to talk to that Kook?”

Fair question.

Turns out Phred Felps and I go way back.

We were side-by-side in a small airplane in danger of crashing (there was foam on the runway and fire trucks waiting for us when we landed) back in 1976.

That was way before his “God Hates F@gs” thing started. And Phred seems to like talking with me. It was good talk radio. He’s not a stupid man, merely delusional.

I suspect every time we talked on the radio Phred thinks he won the debate. I mostly let him talk. The calls that came in after Felps were eye-opening… people who were appalled I gave him a forum, twice-borns who tried to twist Phred’s theology into something rational, “Christians” who said, “Like it or not, what Phred preaches is pretty much fundamentalism…taken a bit too far.”

“A bit?!”

Okay. I confess. I interviewed him because he was good talk radio. And for the same reason people slow down to gawk at a horrific accident on the freeway.

“…I wasn’t paying attention, but – what tax dollars fund the Phelps?”

As a “church” the entire Westboro Baptist Church compound is exempt from property taxes. The “clergy” gets tax breaks. Which means Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, and United States taxpayers make up the difference.

In fact, that’s the basis for Phred Felps establishing the Westboro Baptist Church in the first place. The IRS came after him in the 70s with demands his little tax dodge represent a theology. Well, the “God Hates F@gs” thing sure qualified.

The Westboro Baptist Church has all the tax protections of any church. Which means the rest of us have to make up the difference.

But you, “GMC70″ weren’t paying attention. Too busy posting to WE Blog on the taxpayers’ dime, I guess.