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Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church: In Their Own Words
Report by the Anti-Defamation League
Homophobia Online: The Westboro Baptist Church Portion of the report, “Poisoning the Web: Hatred Online,” prepared by the Anti-Defamation League
Kansas anti-gay church embarrasses Topekans The Oakland Tribune, Nov. 4, 2002
Love and Hate in Topeka : The Theology of Fred Phelps “On 17 April 2004, Washburn University (Topeka, Kansas) hosted a lecture on Fred Phelps and his theology of hatred toward homosexual persons. The speaker was Rev. John Rankin, who debated Mr. Phelps in Casper, Wyoming in October 2002. At the Washburn lecture, Rev. Rankin read his opening statement from the debate, outlining several ways in which Mr. Phelps’ beliefs deviate from Scripture on its own terms and from the biblical God of love.”
Pastor Who Takes Pride in Hate Traces the Emotion to Bible Los Angeles Times, Nov. 16, 1999
What led Fred Phelps to his beliefs and actions?, The Wichita Eagle, Apr. 2, 2006
Debates / Forums
Does God Hate Homosexuals? Mars Hill Forum #70, 13 October 2002, at the Casper Open Bible Church, Casper, Wyoming.
“The goal of the Mars Hill Forum is to seek truth by embracing the love of hard questions. Rev. John C. Rankin has organized one hundred Mars Hill Forums since 1993.”
- About Mars Hill Forum“The guest of the forum was Fred W. Phelps, Sr., pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Pastor Phelps and his church have conducted some 20,000 picket demonstrations across America in protest of various sins. He believes that preaching hatred of homosexuals is part of the gospel he is called to proclaim. John Rankin opposes this viewpoint, arguing that “the true Gospel calls all people to repentance, based on the love of God for all sinners, homosexual or otherwise, and based on the evidence that God is good.”
Pastor Phelps asked John Rankin these questions:
1. “I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau.” (Malachi 1:2-3) How do you explain those verses?
2. Does God love people in hell?”
- Mars Hill Forum #70
Multimedia
God Hates America
[Caution: Offensive Content] Fred Phelps, in a production video by his Westboro Baptist Church, abuses the Bible to try and find support for his twisted behavior.
Shirley Phelps Roper on FOX New’s Hannity & Roper program [Caution: Offensive Content] Hate speech from one of Fred Phelps’ family members.
News and News Archive
Westboro Baptist Church news tracker, provided by Religion News Blog
See Also
Cult of Christianity
Hate Groups
Homosexality, Lesbianism, Bisexuality, and Transgenderism
Web Sites
Pro
God Hates Fags The Westboro Baptist Church home page.
Contra
GodLovesFags.com This website provides “information to the gay and lesbian community about what it really means to be gay and believe in God.”
GodLovesFags.com was registered as a web domain on April 17, 1998. The owner of the domain registered it out of disgust for Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church’s website: godhatesfags.com.
[…][We monitor] Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church while providing information to the gay and lesbian community about what it really means to be gay and believe in God.
GodLovesFags.com does not discriminate on the basis of religion. We try to provide as wide a variety of gay religious information as we can.
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