Award over funeral protest may not stand

[dizzyde]

Originally Posted by pelathais

Fred Phelps made a lot of money as an attorney successfully suing Topeka area establishments and businesses in the civil rights era.

Then he developed some sort of mental disease and went wacko with his "church." He was disbarred many years ago.

His very large family lives on "church" property and his very vocal daughter is an attorney now as are most of his children. He more or less disowned one son who didn't go to the mail order law school that everyone else attended.

Their compound was the scene of an apparent bombing attempt several years ago. Minimal damage was done to one of their vans and no one was hurt. Their sign gets shot up from time to time.

As Christians we should pray for the healing of this man and his family. They live in cult like conditions and according to reports from family that have escaped they were subjected to some very cruel treatment as children at this man's hands.

At one time the kids (now the adults) were forced to sell candy door to door to pay the bills while their father's mind was circling the drain. They have since been successful in suing others who have "persecuted" their self righteous cause.

Sad. Very, very sad.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by Thad

I just watched a video clip of them in one of their church services


anyone see it ?


All the women are required to wear veils, scarves or head coverings.


I found that very interesting

That's new. 10 years ago the girls weren't wearing any such thing. Outside of church many of the girls wear shorts and tank tops to the various "protests" during the summer months.

The whole family was featured on the cover of Runner's World magazine when Fred went through a jogging faze. He rounded up and forced his kids to run many miles with him and he was a "jogging celebrity" briefly before everyone found out the kids were being forced into it. Kind of like Forrest Gump's evil twin, I suppose.

[Elizabeth]

How do these people sleep at night??!!

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Kae

I think it is sad how these children are learning hatred at such a young age. It will be so integrated into the way they think.

It's really all about degrees. In some of OUR churches, the 'yutes' learn about the 'unquestionablitie' of the pastor and the 2nd-class citizenship of the female gender in all things church and family related.

They have just taken it to the next logical conclusion. Teaching pure hate against fellow Americans and human beings.