Thunderbyrd, I can find nothing online to sugguest that Fred Phelps is involved in any form of civil rights work.
On the contrary the Anti-Defamation Leage has accused Westboro Baptists as being racist, examples include distributing "literature" which condemn multiculturalism, atack people on the basis of being "black" and presented an Africian American politician as a gorilla, a clearly intended racial slur :
"Anybody babbling about 'multicultural affairs' and 'celebrating diversity' is a propagandist for the militant sodomite agenda...Westboro Baptists will picket this black obfuscator, in religious protest and warning. Being black won't get you to Heaven. But promoting fags will take you to Hell."
-- "WBC Will Picket ___________________, Ph.D. She's a Multicultural, Diversity-Celebrating Blabbermouth," WBC "News Release," November 13, 1996
"Forget the American Bald Eagle. Since June 23, 1994, the only fitting emblem for the Great Seal of the United States Judiciary is this beast...Just call me: 'Yo Honuh'!!!... Here Come De Judge!!!"
--Text surrounding a racist caricature of an African-American female judge, "The Federal Judiciary: A Menagerie of Demonic, Libidinous, unclean Beasts: A Curse from God Upon an Apostate Nation," WBC flier, November 28, 1996
"Me ______________. Me lots smarter now. Me be Deputy Mayor...This crowd could dumb down the Western Hemisphere."
-- Text surrounding a drawing of a gorilla, "Wagnon's 'Friendlier Topeka,'" WBC flier, June 13, 1997. The named individual is an African-American city council member in Topeka, Kansas
"Black Female Dyke ___________ is a child of the Devil, peddling her satanic father's fag lies...She's dangerous because she plays the race card, the female card, & the poor-little-broken-home-orphan card like a fiddle to gullible fools who give her money."
-- "WBC to Picket Pervert ________, & Her Devil's Angels," WBC "News Release," May 20, 1996
"The recent race riots in New York over the senseless killing of young Yusef Hawkins, and the waves of Black students clashing with police in Virginia Beach, remind us that racism is not quite dead in America the beautiful. But most of us are sick and tired of self-flagellation. Shall a few isolated racist acts keep us all in sackcloth forever, repenting the sins of slave-owning ancestors?"
-- Fred Phelps in The Spotlight newspaper, October 30, 1989
"Meet _______________, black criminal...this black goon heads for 15-year-old Sharon Phelps...to beat her and hospitalize her."
-- "Boycott the Vintage...Black Bullies Beat White Kids and Women," WBC flier, March 31, 1996
"On Feb. 1 this sorry smear of Hamitic Sludge who sold his black soul to the Courthouse Whore ordered a fellow black murderer...released without bond & without an AIDS test!"
-- "Black Slime ____," WBC flier, February 6, 1995
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As for the gay agenda you have simply branded the term (and the myth) around in the conversation with no offer of clarification and what appears to be a clear sympathy for Phelps.
Christian leaders persecute homosexuals and when one of their own goes too far then logically it must be the gay's fault. This is a theory worthy of Phelp himself. I suppose we could blame the holocaust on the jews too... Oh wait, Phelp's does that too. He was ordained a baptist in 1946 and was denounced only after he became an embarassment. When was he installed by homosexuals according to this theory?
Perhaps his years of physically and mentally abusing/humilliating his own children in the name of God was inspired by the "gay agenda" as well.
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If gay bashing, teen suicide and genuine attempts by politicians and Presidents to actually amend America’s constitution to explicitly deny rights to homosexuals weren’t clear and present dangers, the notion of a “gay agenda” would be laughable. How strong can a marriage be – a supposedly sanctified institution – if two members of the same sex marrying will destroy it? How learned can a behavior be, if despite your best parenting efforts to instill heterosexuality onto your children, they can be so easily evangelized by radical homosexuals.
Many gay people who simply want the right to serve their country, marry or work without fear of discrimination for being open about who they are have no agenda beyond that. A blogger calling himself angry biscuit sums it up this way: Homosexual Agenda: 1. Quality time w/family 2. Be treated equally 3. Buy milk
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