Fred, You Gotta Love Him....NOT!

Strange, that Fred Phelps continues to spread his hate of homosexuals after all these years. Strange, that he goes all over the United States to do so and someone hasn't "made his day." Strange, that when in San Francisco, his group was chased away by tomato-pelting bystanders, and yet in Topeka he is allowed to "do his thing" because he has the right of free speech.

While the anti-funeral picketing bill continues its way to becoming a law, Fred continues to picket funerals of anyone who has died of aids, of soldiers - because the Army has the don't ask, don't tell policy, fallen coal miners - because that state's congress didn't pass the laws that Fred Phelps thought they should. Strange, that someone in the depths of grief, hasn't at least cleaned Fred's plow. So, Fred continues on, spreading his hate on the streets and passing it down to his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, who we often all see on the street corners of Topeka. There is a group called "Not Today Fred" that have picketed opposite whatever corner Fred's group (Westboro Baptist Church) happens to be on. I'm not sure if they are still active or not, but it was nice to see them out letting Topeka know that we aren't in denial about Fred.

Fred keeps hanging on to this mortal life, but one day, he will learn that his posters which say that God laughs when gay people die, are wrong. God won't even laugh when Fred dies, but probably a lot of us will.....