Anti-Gay Fred Phelps Admitted To Hospice Facility

[W!nston]

I read this and thought I'd share it:

Fred Phelps (founder of Westboro Baptist Church) In Kansas Care Facility

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., who founded a Kansas church widely known for its protests at military funerals and anti-gay sentiments, is in a care facility, according to a church spokesman.

Phelps, 84, is being cared for in a Shawnee County facility, Westboro Baptist Church spokesman Steve Drain said Sunday. Drain wouldn't identify the facility.

"I can tell you that Fred Phelps is having some health problems," Drain said. "He's an old man, and old people get health problems."

Members of the Westboro church, based in Topeka, frequently protest at funerals of soldiers with signs containing messages such as "Thank God for dead soldiers," and "Thank God for 9/11," claiming the deaths are God's punishment for American immorality and tolerance of homosexuality and abortion.

Westboro Baptist, a small group made mostly of Phelps' extended family, inspired a federal law and laws in numerous states limiting picketing at funerals. But in a major free-speech ruling in 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the church and its members couldn't be sued for monetary damages for inflicting pain on grieving families under the First Amendment.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil-rights nonprofit group, has called Westboro Baptist Church a hate group.

Nate Phelps, an estranged son of Fred Phelps, told The Associated Press in a phone interview Sunday night that members of Westboro voted Phelps out of the church last summer, apparently "after some kind of falling out."

Nate Phelps, who broke away from the church 37 years ago, said church members became concerned afterward that his father might harm himself and moved him out of the church, where he and his wife had lived for years. Fred Phelps was moved into a house, stopped eating and since has been moved into hospice care, Nate Phelps said.

The estranged son is in contact with other family members who are also estranged from the church and said two of them managed to visit his father earlier this month.

Drain declined comment Sunday on whether Fred Phelps had been voted out of the church. Drain said Westboro Baptist Church doesn't have a designated leader.

Kansas' leading gay-rights group on Sunday urged the gay community to respect the privacy of the "notoriously anti-LGBT" pastor if his health is declining.

Phelps and the members of his church have "harassed" the grieving families of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Kansans and others, Thomas Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, said in a prepared statement.

But Witt added: "This is our moment as a community to rise above the sorrow, anger, and strife he sowed, and to show the world we are caring and compassionate people who respect the privacy and dignity of all."

Nate Phelps said he has no doubt some people would want to protest his father's funeral but added, "I wish they wouldn't."

 

[bobblastsoff]

May he suffer as he's made grieving families suffer.
I hope his soul rots in hell for eternity.

 

[Oege]

This man should be in a mental institution not in a care facility

 

[tonka]

Let the nasty old men die. Let the babies be born.

The babies will like us!

 

[gorgik9]

Seriously, it's time for that dispiccable creature whose name I won't pronounce to get butt fucked with a red hot poker and go to hell...

 

[brmstn69]

Since protesting his funeral would be tactless and beneath us...


Volunteers are needed to organize a gay pride parade to follow the funeral procession...

 

[gb2000ie]

I've spent more time than I'd like to in a hospice of late (as a visitor), they are fabulous institutions that provide wonderful care. Frankly, much more than this hate-monger deserves. I didn't think it was appropriate when the Satanists wanked on his mother's grave, but I'll be 110% behind them if they go for a repeat performance on his.

Or, someone could re-enact this little gem from Ireland on his grave:



(Haughey was a former Irish primer minister who I'd describe as having the politics of Margaret Thatcher and the ethics of Richard Nixon)

B.

 

[dargelos]

Thanks for that great film clip, gb, really enjoyed that. But back to old Fred. Any response to the bastards death will be seen by his (shrinking) band of disciples as vindication of his demented campaign, I would rather just forget that such a piece of excrement had ever existed. Wanking onto his grave would be a waste of good spunk.

 

[tonka]

He's dead. His ideas are beyond the pale.
We haven't won, but we're winning. Leave him to his grave, and look ahead.

 

[mrpiz]

Some moms say to always say nice things about the dead. Well, Fred is dead. How nice!

 

[brmstn69]

In all honesty, as vile and disgusting as the man was, not since Matthew Shepard has any one individual been more responsible for the advancement of gay equality.

And yes, I just threw-up a little in my mouth for having compared Shepard to Phelps, but let me explain...

The antics of Phelps and his followers pushed gay issues to the front page of every news paper, the leading story on network news and internet articles read around the world. What would have normally been a short article on page 12 of your local paper became headline news. The protesting of soldiers funerals, music concerts, etc. made gay issues everyone's issues. Conservative religious and political leaders toned down their gay bashing in an effort to distance themselves from the controversy he created. Bikers, soldiers, Christians, people from all walks of life joined together in counter protest.

In short, his hate mongering generated more support for gay equality, amongst the broadest diversity of people, than we could have ever generated on our own.

So considering all he has done for us, we should do something for him and his family in return.

I suggest we start an e-mail campaign to nominate him as Advocate Magazine's "Person Of The Year 2014". Just think of the joy his family will get when they receive a lovely plaque thanking him for his contribution...

 

[Oege]

I just wonder how he died: "natural" without medication (painkillers) OR was he weak and took some???

 

[dargelos]

I am sure, Oege, that the hospice nurses will have given him pain relief whether he wanted it or not. It is a way of life for them to offer comfort and prevent suffering for every patient, even one as evil as that.

 

[bobblastsoff]

I hope his soul remains tortured for all eternity.

 

[bobblastsoff]

So now we find out that this asshole's family will not have a funeral for him.
They don't want others to do to him as he has done to so many others by picketing decent people's funerals and hurling verbal insults of the vilest kind!
In time the location of his grave site will be found and those who feel they should desecrate it will do so with a vengeance.

 

[tonka]

On Friday, Lorde (a New Zealand singer) had a concert in Kansas City. Westboro Baptist held a protest ( with their usual horrible signs).

Another group held a counter protest. Their sign said "Sorry For Your Loss".

 

[brmstn69]

So now we find out that this asshole's family will not have a funeral for him.
They don't want others to do to him as he has done to so many others by picketing decent people's funerals and hurling verbal insults of the vilest kind!
In time the location of his grave site will be found and those who feel they should desecrate it will do so with a vengeance.

Hopefully he was cremated and his ashes flushed down the toilet...

 

[gb2000ie]

I think there is a wonderful irony to that fact that his despicable behaviour has prevented his own funeral - good!

B.