Westboro Baptist Church

Overview

Westboro Baptist Church is a religious extremist organization supposedly espousing Christian principles. Their pastor is Fred Phelps; they are based in Topeka, Kansas.

On one occasion, WBC protesters at a soldier's funeral were mistaken by neoconservative Fox News commentator Sean Hannity as being members of the "anti-war left".

Links

Reference

• Wikipedia
• Conservapedia: not even Conservapedia has anything positive to say about them
• dKosopedia
• SourceWatch no equivalent article (as of 2008-03-13)

Official

• God Hates Fags (Westboro Baptist Church, Topeka, KS)
  • God Hates America: Westboro Baptist Church commentary on the United States: "We will boldly stay on message: God hates the USA and America is doomed."
  • music video: God Hates the World (set to the tune of "We Are the World") may explain some of the thinking behind WBC's bizarre philosophy.

Filed Links

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Projects

• serious response sites:
  • God Loves Fags (blog)
• humor:
  • God Hates Figs: proving by Biblical quotation that the fig is truly a damned fruit
  • God Hates Shrimp: the heathen liberal epicurean elite are destroying the sanctity of our nation's seafood restaurants