The Five People Fred Phelps Will Meet in Heaven?

With the death of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps (the God Hates Fags guy), The Denver Post has reprinted an article from 2003 in which Dan Haley speculates on the five people Phelps will meet in heaven.

GLAAD Demands Radio Outlets Rescind Airtime to Westboro in Wake of Tucson Shootings

The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) today called on the nationally syndicated Mike Gallagher Show, KXXT-AM in Tolleson, Arizona, and CFNY-FM, 102.1 "The Edge" in Toronto to rescind their offers to reward the Westboro Baptist Church with airtime.


The radio outlets agreed to host the Westboro Baptist Church after it announced plans to picket the funeral of Christina Taylor Green, the nine-year-old girl tragically killed last weekend in Tucson. The group also called off additional plans to picket the funeral of U.S. District Judge John Roll after the Mike Gallagher Show, a nationally syndicated radio show reaching millions, offered the group a platform to, according to a Westboro spokesperson, "communicate its message with as wide an audience as possible."

According to The Los Angeles Times, the group had made no decisions about whether it would picket the four other victims' funerals.

"The promotion of the Westboro Baptist Church's hateful vitriol has no place on our airwaves or at the funerals of these victims," said GLAAD President Jarrett Barrios.

"While countless media outlets around the country are properly paying tribute to the fallen, these radio outlets have decided to cave to blackmail tactics and reward one of our nation's most anti-American groups," Barrios continued. "Such action only incentivizes groups like Westboro with an opportunity to broadcast their hate to millions."

For more than 20 years, the Westboro Baptist Church has cynically and maliciously exploited the suffering of countless brave and patriotic American families by protesting the funerals of innocent victims and fallen heroes. Westboro Baptist Church has held up signs at the funerals of fallen soldiers, saying "Thank God for IEDs," "Pray for More Dead Soldiers" and "God Killed Your Son." Before the families of victims of September 11th, they held up signs saying "Thank God for 9/11" and "God Hates America." Westboro has picketed the funerals of hate crime victims with placards reading "God Wants Your Son Dead" and "God Hates Fags."

This week Westboro has reacted to the tragedy in Tucson with messages like "God Sent the Shooter."
This morning, GLAAD launched an online action for concerned community members and allies to send e-mails to the media outlets. The action had over 1,500 participants as of this morning. For more information: www.glaad.org/nowestboro.

Frat boys versus Westboro Baptist Church. Frat boys win!

A fraternity in Chicago held a straight/gay Hug In to protest Westboro Baptist Church coming to their university earlier this month. They hang a sign that reads 'No tolerance for intolerance'.

Go straight boys!

- via Videogum

Fred Phelps and Westboro Church call fire 'the work of fags or fag sympathizers'

Every time you think Fred Phelps and his 'God Hates Fags' church can't get any sicker, they prove you wrong. Here's a video from their website where they praise God for a recent fire at their church and blame it on "the work of fags or fag sympathizers".