Want to learn more about the Westboro Baptist Church? BBC Documentary right here!

[Kablooie]

The Most Hated Family in America.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7735501683185935638

[Turbineguy]

1. Most Hated Family in America?

That's really something considering the competition.

[Stevenmarc]

2. Thanks, but no thanks, is there anymore we need to know about these inbred fundamentalists

and their homophobic jihad.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. It's really interesting! Older Kansans giving the family 'the finger". Give you hope for humanity

[Brazenly Liberal]

3. I'm on dialup. Does the video say where their funding comes from?

thx!

[Kablooie]

7. I don't think it says but the wierd thing is they are a happy family who delight in hating.

[Brazenly Liberal]

9. Thanks, Kablooie. Yeah, that is pretty weird

And sad and........... I'd really like to know where the money comes from. I'd really like to see whoever is footing the bill be exposed.

[Politicalboi]

4. Well they will be appearing

At Natasha Richardson's funeral.

http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=1ko2wh

A family that hates together hates forever.

[DS1]

5. I see them in that van

and the only thing I think about is hoping the next time they're in that van their left front tire blows out, taking them across the highway and into a semi, and the only thing they can find is her teeth in the grill

[Brazenly Liberal]

11. Oh, my goodness! I could NEVER wish such a thing on them!

It's over too fast with too little suffering. ;)

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. "PSYCHOTIC FRED PHELPS FAMILY EXPOSED"

"PSYCHOTIC FRED PHELPS FAMILY EXPOSED"

Snippets:

When her father was beating someone and screaming at the top of his lungs, frequently Margie would take her terrified younger brothers and sisters away for several hours. When they thought it was over, they'd come back like cautious house cats, sneaking in softly, Margie on point, to see if the coast was clear. The boys tell how one day their father was in a barbershop and noticed the leather strap used to sharpen razors. It struck his fancy as a backup to the mattock handle, so he had one custom-made at a leatherworker's shop near Lane and Huntoon.

"It was about two feet long and four inches wide. It left oval circles- red, yellow, and blue," says Mark. "Usually the circles would be where it would snap the tip-on the outside of your right leg and hip...because he was righthanded." According to Mark and Nate, their father wore out several of the leathermaker's straps while they were growing up. As Mark Phelps became the angel-appointed in Fred's family cult, Nate was assigned the role of sinner. For Mark, his brother was the needed scapegoat. For the rest of the family, Nate was a problem child, the delinquent of the brood. Brilliant like his dad (Nate's IQ has been measured at 150), the middle son followed another drummer from the time he was a toddler. When he was five, he remembers his father telling him, 'I'm going to keep a special eye on you'. The regular beatings started shortly thereafter.

{snip}

In fact, Mark adds, Nate's obstinate resistance so angered his father that, by age nine, when a family outing had been planned, frequently Nate not only missed it, but Fred would remain behind with him. "And during the course of the day, my father would beat Nate whenever the spirit moved him. " Mark remembers the family coming back once to find Pastor Phelps jogging around the dining room table, beating the sobbing boy with a broom handle; while doing so, he was alternately spitting on the frightened child and chuckling the same sinecure laugh so disturbing to those who've seen him on television. When he wasn't allowed to go along, says Mark, "Nate would literally scream and chase mom as she drove off with us kids in the car. He knew what was coming after we left." The older brother remembers the little one racing alongside the windows, begging for them not to leave him until, like a dog, he could no longer keep up. Mark sorrowfully admits he felt no empathy for him, only relief it wasn't happening to himself. "I just stared straight ahead. I didn't know what he was yelling about. I was just glad to get the hell out of there." But how could their mom tolerate that? Wouldn't the maternal instinct cut in at some point? Wouldn't the lioness turn in fury to protect her cub?

http://www.congressunderfire.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=109&topic_id=54&mesg_id=54&page=2

[snappyturtle]

8. I have heard about the picketing this group does at funerals but never understood why until now.

What a twisted group of people. I think the documentary did a good job of letting the family explain their perverted ways. Thanks for posting.

[Liberal_in_LA]

13. 14:27... "you are going to hell giggle giggle"

:eyes:

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Thanks...going to watch

[Liberal_in_LA]

14. 70 people with one face. Can't tell 'em apart

[Stevenmarc]

15. There's a lot of genetic linkage in that group

and a serious lack of style, they must have cornered the market on Members Only jackets

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. Yep, it's also interesting how generations #1 and #2 have huge families but gen #3 aren't marrying

Seemed liked 'the girls' weren't planning on marriage cuz the end times are coming or no guy was good enough.