When you double click on your Internet Explorer icon, you open yourself up to the ideas and actions of an entire world. You can see local news, go shopping, play games, pirate music, look at porn, or read about what some idiot thinks about the new Star Wars trailer.Sometimes a person is so incredibly wrong about something that his incompetence must be brought to public light and ridiculed. That’s why I’m reviewing www.godhatesfags.com/, a poorly thought out abomination to Christians everywhere.
The site is “maintained” by Reverend Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. and the Westboro Baptist Church. I did a brief background check on the old Rev. at the Anti-Defamation League site (www.adl.org/special_reports/wbc/default.htm). I was able to find some rather interesting facts about him.
“Trained as a lawyer, Fred Phelps was disbarred in 1979 by the Kansas Supreme Court, which asserted that he had “little regard for the ethics of his profession.” The formal complaint against Phelps charged that he misrepresented the truth in a motion for a new trial in a case he had brought, and that he held the defendant in the case up to “unnecessary public ridicule for which there is no basis in fact.”
Following his disbarment from Kansas State courts, Phelps continued to practice law in Federal courts. In 1985, nine Federal court judges filed a disciplinary complaint, charging him and six of his family members, all attorneys, with making false accusations against them. The Phelpses fought the complaint but lost. In 1989, “Fred Phelps agreed to surrender his license to practice law.” Yet he’s the spiritual leader of a handful of corn-fed trash. Fascinating!
The entrance page is a collection of ambiguous Bible quotes, beginning with “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22). What these simpletons fail to realize is that gays don’t lie with women the same way they lie with men (then they’d be bisexuals!). This verse is followed by a bunch of verses that can be summed up as “God good! Evil bad!”
The homepage had a whole slew of wholesome articles to share with your family, such as ” Queen Mother In Hell!” “God Hates America!” and a” Fags vs. Kids Brain Teaser” (for the kids!)
Rev. Phelps’s sermon page was another great eye opener. At the top it reads: Bread From The Westboro Oven (in MP3 format), brought to you by Fred Phelps, Sr.
“And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst” (John 6:3). I guess the good Reverend has now been promoted from redneck-hate-spewing-scum to Jesus!
I clicked on the site’s photo section and was able to acquire a picture of Rev Phelps. It’s way too disturbing for publication, so I’ll describe him to you. Do you remember the movie “Poltergeist”? Phelps looks dead on Reverend Kane (the creepy bad guy).
By far the most disturbing aspect of this site is the memorial section for Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was the victim of two hate-mongering murderers. It is accompanied by text stating, ” He will be in hell for all eternity, ‘where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched’ (Mark 9:44). For each day that passes, he has only eternity to look forward to. All the candlelight vigils, all the tributes, all the acts of Congress, all the rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States, will not shorten his sentence by so much as one day. And all the riches of the world will not buy him one drop of water to cool his tongue.”
If you are as appalled by this site as I am, there are many things you can do. You could email the site’s complaint department at ghf-abuse@godhatesfags.com, but I doubt that Rev. Phelps checks that email. You should probably contact the site’s info email at ghf-info@godhatesfags.com, or the Webmaster at ghf-webmaster@godhatesfags.com. Tell these perverters of faith what you think of their hate-spewing site. You may also want to check out the anti-god hates fags site at www.godlovesfags.com. The people involved with this site work against Rev. Phelps and his white-trash followers by forming counter protests against them and informing people on how to fight back against homophobia.