I just heard that Phelps wants to picket the miner's funerals!

[baby_mouse]

WHY does Phelps want to picket the miner's funerals?

:-O

This is really batshit even for him!

I know everyone's going to tell me that he wants publicity, but what's the reason HE's giving?

[Mutley]

1. What the hell is his freaking problem?!?

:grr:

[xchrom]

2. he sees ''gay people''.

[Mutley]

7. ...

:spray:

Okay, that was funny, thanks. :D

[Petrushka]

3. Who is "Phelps" ? ? ? [eom]

[theHandpuppet]

6. Take your rolaids before reading

http://www.godhatesfags.com/

[NYdemocrat089]

51. What the hell is this guy's problem.

I've never seen more hate in my life.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. A minister from Kansas

who has a virilant anti-gay agenda. Used to be he'd just picket funerals of gays, like Matthew Shepard, who was beaten to death by two gay bashers. Phelps actually had his followers (who, btw, are mostly members of his family-his "church" isn't very large)yell and scream at the funeral, and he has tried to erect a monument saying Shepard was in hell. When these tactics didn't work, he started picketing all funerals for soldiers slain in the war, because he says they were killed because our country condones gays or something like that.

[theHandpuppet]

4. He wouldn't have the nerve to show up

Those mountaineers would kick his ass all the way back to Kansas.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Maybe this will be the end of Phelps, then

I've lived among miners, and miner's families. They don't take kindly to folks denegrating them. That's all I'm sayin', but I think you get my drift.

[Vogon_Glory]

19. Maybe Phelps Would have A Doctor Smith Moment?

Maybe Phelps would be arrogant enough to show up at the miners' funerals and have a "Doctor Smith moment." You remember Jonathan Harris' character from the tv show Lost in Space?

Oh, the pain!, the pain!

:evilgrin:

[liberalitch]

23. I did a teaching internship just outside of wheeling....

and I don't take kindly to anyone denegrating these people either.
....quality people

[fasttense]

9. I wonder if WV will send out state troopers to protect Phelps? n/t

[Name removed]

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[StraightDope]

11. And this guy isn't in prison WHY?

If I were one of his sons, I'd find dear old dad and beat the fuck out of HIM with the very same stick for an equal amount of time, oh, say one month total. What a sick asshole.

SD

[HughBeaumont]

13. There's a link out there that goes into detail about the attacks.

Sickest shit. This asshole beat all thirteen members of his family, would curse about 400 times in a row purple in the face while doing it and continued the abuse over the course of every one of their childhoods. And then when he couldn't do it anymore, he took his verbal abuse out on homosexuals. He somehow dodged the law everytime, due in part that his family never spoke up out of fear and no outside witnesses.

[StraightDope]

15. It's too bad that I don't believe in Hell...

Because if I EVER saw someone who deserved an eternity of hellfire and brimstone and betting jabbed in the ass with a pitchfork, it's this guy.

SD

[theHandpuppet]

30. Considering Phelps celebrates soldiers' deaths and 9/11

Why isn't this asshole on the no-fly list? Why aren't his phones being tapped? Why is he not considered a domestic terrorist? Do you think if Fred's name was Mohammed he'd still be allowed to travel around the country picketing the funerals of soldiers? Or are only Quakers considered threats?

[cfield]

52. Because the Fucking Bastard

"in charge" of this country probably sends him encouragement every week. I fucking hate Phelps! I sure don't miss Topeka but every time we're back for a weekend, he's out on Sunday mornings in front of some church with his damn signs. He's a complete asshole and apparently a pretty good lawyer since he always avoids any trouble. But if you or I were to pull any of the stunts he does, we'd be locked up in a second.

[DS1]

33. that's what I've been saying since day one

Beaten into the ground. so there's just a flat red patch in the dirt.

[wakeme2008]

12. Hope his health insurance it VERY VERY good

IMHO he will need it in WV.

[Sydnie]

16. I hope his life insurance payments are current

He'll need that if he meses with those grieving miners and their families.

[michreject]

14. I'll ask the same thing..................

"WHY does Phelps want to picket the miner's funerals"?

[Sydnie]

17. because they might have some CAMERAS there

and he might get some FACE TIME in front of them. Sick fuck!

[liberalitch]

21. Were any of the miners gay?

Why would anyone make the grief of these families any darker..... especially after all of the other indignities they have suffered

[Petrushka]

24. Checked out the link that somebody posted above and . . .

. . . discovered Phelps "reasoning" in his Wednesday, January 4, 2006 NEWS RELEASE:


God is laughing, mocking and deriding hypocritical fag-infested West Virginia.

<snip>

Thank God for 12 dead miners.

They died in shame and disgrace, citizens of a cursed nation of unthankful, unholy perverts who have departed from the living God to worship on "Brokeback Mountain," and who have replaced the Bible with "The Da Vinci Code."

<snip>

WBC knows West Virginia very well, having led picketing missions there in religious protest and warning. They mocked our message, despised our words, and misused our people, until the wrath of the Lord arose against West Virginia "till there was no remedy." 2 Chron. 36:16.

<snip>

Thank God for the lightning bolt that caused the explosion that trapped the Sago miners. God killed them and cast them into Hell. WBC will picket their funerals, warning sodomite America that West Virginia symbolizes this Hell-bound nation, and worse and more of it is on the way from God.



Whoa-ow! God forgive me . . . but . . . even I might be tempted to stone that devil if he brought his show-on-the-road to these here environs!

[mmonk]

18. The more publicity, the better.

Religious nutjobs that are destroying our country and human decency need to be exposed as much as possible. Americans need to become intelligent and stop the drift into pure ignorance and darkness that marks and stinks up this country currently.

[leftyladyfrommo]

29. He is all about publicity and always has been

The papers around here won't cover him at all unless there is something that is just too big and have to run an article.

The more news coverage he gets the worse he behaves.

I think he suffers from a mental condition called "a nut job."

[baby_mouse]

35. So.... basically his position is the can picket all funerals because

essentially, people are bad?

????

WuuuuuAAAAH.

Why isn't this guy in a mental hospital?

[dogday]

20. I really don't think that this guy

wants to go to the coalmine areas of WV and do this. He may never be found again. These people are in no mood for his crap.

[Ilsa]

42. I'm rooting for the miners to take care of their local problems

locally. ;) Good luck miners! I suspect there won't be many that miss Fred.

[lonestarnot]

22. Well that's one way of getting rid of him.

[salin]

25. prolly ala Robertson...

these tragedies happen because God is unhappy with US policies (in Phelps case, he apparently thinks that US Policy is very Gay friendly... :eyes: )

[Puglover]

26. Picketing a miners funeral in West Virginia

is vastly different from picketing a gay friendly church in South Minneapolis or even a military funeral for that matter. I think these filthy cretins are in for a surprize

[DiverDave]

27. ol freddy is going to his

own Armageddon.
I will bet $50 he stays away, because those folks will kill him.
you lurkers tell fred he's fixin to meet the devil, and the folks in W.V. will not put up with this crap.

[tyedyeto]

28. I don't know that area of W VA at all... so a question

Do most of the pick-up trucks there have gun racks? If so, Phelps and Co better watch their backs if they do indeed show up.

[ohio_liberal]

31. Oh, at least a few of them do

There are lots of hunters there. Fred's asking for an ass-whooping. I would pay to see it.

[ohio_liberal]

32. Remember when counter protestors showed up dressed as angels?

I think if this nutjob decides to go through with it someone should organize a counter protest with the angels again.

[baby_mouse]

34. How about a counter protest with machetes?

And a portable industrial dog-food mincer.

[ohio_liberal]

46. Deleted--posted in the wrong place

:blush:

[RamboLiberal]

39. And a lot of these guys carry cocked and locked .45's

I'm really hoping some miners kick his and his wacko family's ass back to Kansas this time.

[cfield]

53. We don't want him back

No one here has yet been willing to do time in exchange for knocking him off. If he dares go, I hope there are enough pissed off folks that someone will blow his brains out. However, I hope whoever does it hides in a large crowd and escapes any legal trouble.

[carpetbagger]

45. It makes no difference.

The thing about West Virginians is that they'll charge unarmed after a man with a loaded gun in defense of the people they love. I've seen that happen before when I lived there.

[gkhouston]

36. what makes him think they'll let him anywhere near the funerals?

I wouldn't be surprised if outsiders, with or without cameras, are kept away; it's not a freakin' sideshow. I just hope the ground's not frozen solid and they can go ahead and bury them now instead of waiting for a thaw.

[Crunchy Frog]

37. I wonder if he's going to finally get himself killed.

I might just show up at his funeral to praise God for offing him.

[Protagoras]

38. Let him...

and let the good people of that working class town who've already seen hell...respond in an appropriate and just manner.

[ribrepin]

55. Well said

[jmowreader]

40. He needs the money and the infamy

I implore the miners: please, please, don't give in to the baser instincts.

The logical man's first reaction, when presented with the notion that God killed those 12 miners because he's pissed off over all the gays in West Virginia, is to beat the living shit out of the presenter--Phelps.

Don't do it. This asshole is a disbarred lawyer, his family is infested with ambulance chasers, and he just LOVES to sue people. And they're skillful enough that they usually win.

Unfortunately, the miners are grieving right now, not reading DU, so what will happen is that Phelps is going to start screaming about fags, someone's going to beat him to within an inch of his life, and Phelps will own his assailant's house.

[DemGirl7]

41. Phelps is a headcase...so who knows

the shit this asshole does is disgusting, he belongs in an insane asylum.

[MrSlayer]

43. Who cares? Maybe someone will take a pickaxe to him.

He deserves it for being such an asshole.

[ddeclue]

44. They might not take too kindly to that in West Virginia....

[ohio_liberal]

47. A statement from West Virginia Media--Phelps Gets No Press HERE!

News Judgment
Posted 1/6/2006 07:16 PM

West Virginia Media will not provide a platform for hate.

(snip...)

During this time of great sorrow, an out of state group has come here to exploit the mining tragedy that has struck West Virginia. The group - a hate group - seeks to twist the freedom of speech that this nation provides to promote a perverted and inexplicable agenda.

We have decided at West Virginia Media not to provide that group a platform to spread its sick message.

Yes, we'll cover the news, but that does not mean that we should give this group or any group an opportunity to inflict pain on those who already are suffering to advance their bizarre aims. We simply will not be a party to it.

Instead, we join our viewers in praying for the recovery of Randal McCloy Jr. and again offer our most sincere condolences to the families and communities of the 12 miners who have lost their lives.

http://wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=7860&catid=203

[pinto]

50. Very deft statement - takes a stand AND doesn't give the cult a mention.

[WinkyDink]

48. Phelps must be gayer than the proverbial Ungaro frock.

Children or no children, he's fighting an intense INTERNAL battle.

[davsand]

49. Hey, Fred. Here's your permit to protest. Pin it on your shirt.

[Zambero]

54. There's just no telling what those miners might have been doing

Why on earth would a dozen or more men head off each day to a dark and secluded location? Phelps seems to have an answer.