Which baptist church is protesting at funerals

The group is basically a family-based cult of personality built around its patriarch, Fred Phelps. And taking you with him! God hates these dark-hearted rebellious disobedient Jews. The Westboro Baptist Church WBC is made up of its leader, Pastor Fred Waldron Phelps, nine of his 13 children the other four are estranged , their children and spouses, and a small number of other families and individuals. Phelps has maintained tight control over the group.

His estranged son Nathan says the elder Phelps abused his children and his wife, cultivating an atmosphere of fear to maintain his authority. They believe that God chooses some to be saved, and those lucky few cannot resist God's call; but God chooses not to save most, and these unfortunate souls will burn in hell forever.

Your prayer every day should be that you might be. And if you are not, nothing you say or do will serve as a substitute. WBC specializes in anti-gay vitriol. Its main website is titled "God Hates F They want to force you by law to support their filth, and they want to shut you up by law when they hate what you say.

For example, when two sets of twin girls drowned in Massachusetts in separate incidents in July and August , the WBC blamed their deaths on the state's legalization of same-sex marriage. The church held its first service on Nov. Fred Phelps raised his family near the church and many members of the Phelps family live in houses on the WBC compound.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who's been an outspoken advocate for military families, said in a twitter message that "common sense and decency absent" in the ruling, which allows a "wacko 'church'" to spew hate messages. We'll notify you here with news about. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? Comments 0. Top Stories. Collins, Ronald K. Hudson Jr. Hudson, David L. Alvarez, Lizette. Liptak, Adam. Updated December Funeral Protests [electronic resource].

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