Fred Phelps of GodHatesFags.com Infamy, is visiting Bloomington and Peoria:
Westboro Baptist Church spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper said her group will send 10 to 15 people, including children, to Bloomington and Peoria Electrolux sites Aug. 23 because the company is based in Sweden.
Unrelated to company activity, the government in Sweden jailed a preacher for making anti-gay statements, she said. Phelps-Roper described the protest as informational, not seeking a boycott or any other action against Electrolux.
The civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center describes church leader Fred Phelps as “America’s most rabid and vicious hater of homosexuals.” Westboro and the center spar over the center’s designation of it as a “hate group.”
Tentative plans are for Aug. 22 pickets outside St. John’s Lutheran, Holy Trinity Catholic, St. Matthew’s Episcopal, Wesley United Methodist, Second Presbyterian and Vale Community churches.
Second Press was my family’s church growing up and is about the best example of a uptight mainstream church one could hope to find. Seeing Phelps outside would be a hoot.
Phelps and gang visited my current church (also Second Press–different place, different outlook) a couple years ago and the overwhelming reaction was pity.
Warning, the flyer is offensive
I assume this is on the way out to the sodomite whorehouse also known as the Republican National Convention (his line, not mine)
Sodomite Whorehouse would be a good name for a band.
Will Phelps endorse Keyes on his way through the state?
SCAM, that’s a wonderful idea! I wonder what Keyes would say about it?