Collected Posts on the Westboro Baptist Church and Fred Phelps
Westboro Baptist Church Founder Fred Phelps Dies Aged 84 Reverend started Kansas church that gained intense notoriety for its anti-gay protests and pickets at funerals…
Westboro Baptist Church Founder Fred Phelps Dies Aged 84 Reverend started Kansas church that gained intense notoriety for its anti-gay protests and pickets at funerals…
Supreme Court Rules First Amendment Protects Westboro Church’s Right to Picket Funerals Robert Barnes, The Washington Post (March 02, 2011) A nearly unanimous Supreme Court…
Anti-Gay Minister Shouldn’t Be Able To Intrude On Soldiers’ Funerals Doug Gansler, The Washington Post (October 6, 2010) Funeral Protesters Have A Free-Speech Right…
Westboro Baptist’s Funeral Protests Put Free Speech To Test Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers (October 1, 2010) Supreme Court Term Offers Hot Issues and Future…
Antigay Church can Protest Military Funerals, Judge Rules Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor (August 17, 2010) Death Ref has been following the Westboro Baptists Church’s…
High Court: Justices to Consider ‘Funeral Protests’ in Free-Speech Case Robert Barnes, Washington Post (May 31, 2010) The Washington Post ran a really interesting article…
An update to our “God Hates Dead Soldiers” post. The family of dead Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder has been ordered to pay $16,510 in…
So says Fred Phelps. You may be familiar with Phelps and his hate-mongering followers—most of whom are actually his family members—because they have been making…