Dickhead of the Week - Fred Phelps
I tend to ignore this Dickhead, as my former hometown is the base for his operations. Topekans have always attempted this tactic with Fred-Fuckin'-Phelps, so now he makes himself a bother wherever people will pay attention. In Fred's world, God Hates Fags, don't you know.
To spread his message and get the most media coverage, he protests funerals. His attendance at the Matthew Shepard funeral even inspired an episode on Six Feet Under.
Well, recently, Fred and his family have been targeting military funerals. Soldiers are dying in Iraq, you see, because the military tolerates homosexuality, and America is therefore doomed. He's gotten coverage in the LA Times, The Chicago Tribune, and many local papers, and it is for these recent actions that I felt the need to name Fred Dickhead of the Week.
My favorite Fred Phelps story has to be the one about the Topekan woman who tried to run him over in her car, got sued by the Phelps' clan, used "I got distracted by the signs" as her defense, and was found innocent.
On the less humorous side is this lengthy biography of Fred-Fuckin'-Phelps. It's a lot of reading, I admit, but wade through some of it if you can. It includes interviews with a couple of his estranged children, who discuss frankly what it was like growing up under the wrath of this hateful man. They tell a number of truly heartbreaking stories.
"Dickhead" doesn't even begin to cover this guy.
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posted by Dan G @ 10:54 AM
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4 Comments:
If ever there were a Stephen-King-Variety-Satan walking amongst us, he is it.
I was wonderinf what happened to you, T.C. Welcome back, bro.
Went to Florida with the fam on vacation. Back now, though!
Man, I live pretty close to topeka (KCK!!!) and i have seen that ass hole around here. People have been starting to associate Kansans with Fred Phelps radical views. Fred Phelps is a sick sick man, and needs to stop all that he is doing. Why would he care so much about people being gay? It doesn't effect him, I think he should get over it. Protesting at soldiers funerals is low, really low. To be at a funeral where your loved one died and have some asshole with a sign, "GOD HATES FAGS!" screaming at you would break your heart even more. Where I live, most people are completely accepting towards gays, but there are a few who agree with Fred Phelps, and it just makes me absolutely sick. If he cared so much for black rights and equality (yea, that's right, he fought for black rights, strange, i know) then why the FUCK is he trying to segregate a portion of our society?
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