Westboro during anti gay days

The group is basically a family-based cult of personality built around its patriarch, Fred Phelps. And taking you with him! God hates these dark-hearted rebellious disobedient Jews. The Westboro Baptist Church WBC is made up of its leader, Pastor Fred Waldron Phelps, nine of his 13 children the other four are estrangedtheir children and spouses, and a small number of other families and individuals.

Phelps has maintained tight control over the group. His estranged son Nathan says the elder Phelps abused his children and his wife, cultivating an atmosphere of fear to maintain his authority. Your prayer every day should be that you might be. And if you are not, nothing you say or do will serve as a substitute.

WBC specializes in westboro during anti gay days vitriol. They want to force you by law to support their filth, and they want to shut you up by law when they hate what you say. The church held its first service on Nov. Fred Phelps raised his family near the church and many members of the Phelps family live in houses on the WBC compound.

These houses are arranged in a box formation and share a large backyard. InFred founded Phelps-Chartered, a law firm that has come to represent the church in its civil suits. In line with their belief in predestination, the pickets are not aimed at winning followers, but only at warning them of their coming damnation.

They began picketing in Juneand claim to have picketed more than 40, times since then. The church has used its right to protest to harass local businesses and individuals in Topeka, Kan. They reportedly picketed a local restaurant every day for three years because its owner knowingly employed a lesbian.

She has allowed her children to step on an American flag during protests. The WBC uses tactics like these to win media attention and spread its message. The Phelps family raises its children to hold hateful and upsetting views, and to believe that all people not in WBC will go to hell.

The tenets of WBC are so strict that no other churches are taken to be legitimate.

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The children quickly grow alienated in school and in society, leading them to build relationships almost exclusively within the family. In addition to this income, the church makes money by winning or settling civil lawsuits involving the church. During the s, the group sued Topeka multiple times for failing to provide sufficient protection during its protests.

Because the Phelps family represents WBC in court, they can put the fees they win towards supporting the church. As ofseveral WBC members worked for the stateproviding an additional income stream. Board of Education Historical Site in Topeka. The complaint alleged that Phelps violated legal ethical canons because of the extreme vitriol she directed toward gays and lesbians on a radio show.

On Oct. They even claimed that God had chosen to use improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, to kill American soldiers because of an August attack on the WBC compound with a small explosive device. On March 8,the U.