Fred Phelps

I'm standing to the left of both of you and can tell that you look more alike than you'd care to admit. You're all religious zealots.

...why haven't any of you guys done anything about Phelps? Or do wingnuts only kill doctors at church in Kansas? I'm not saying that you should harm him, just asking why all of the well-armed conservative folks around him haven't. So?
Originally Posted by Longermonger

I think this was a particularly rude comment, but not unexpected. The same question can be asked of you and others of your persuasion, why haven't you done anything about the left-wing whackos who are runing our country financially and morally?

I can only answer for myself. But first I'd like to know the question. Did you mean to type "running" or "ruining"? And what wackos are you talking about?

RUNNING: If you're asking about government officials elected by the MAJORITY of Americans, like President Obama, then I'd argue that he's CLEANING UP a mess that was left for him by the right-wing wackos in the previous administration. We're now technically out of the Bush recession, btw.

RUINING: If you're asking about other people, please name them. You might be surprised. I might agree with you. But some of them might just be ruining the country only in your (minority) opinion. Please keep in mind that I view most religious people that believe in things that don't exist as a little bit insane. That even applies to Democrats. IMO, all of the religious folk are zealots. (Just try and point it out to them and see what happens. lol)

MORALS: Are you serious? Are you really going to post that on this board? How are the Democrats responsible for YOU banging hookers, exactly? Morals is a BS word anyway. It is vague and open to interpretation. It's also assumed that you need to have religion in you to have good morals. You don't. At all.

RUDE: Yep. I can be rude. I spend most of my time being nice to people and not getting in their business. That's all anyone has to do if they want peace in the world. It works better than most religions. Everybody seems to like it. But I only like to reward that niceness to nice people. Fools and idiots get my rude side. Because they deserve it.

Sigh...Longer...who in the hell are you talking to?

Sigh...Longer...who in the hell are you talking to? Originally Posted by lacrew_2000

Does anyone even care? I quit reading his posts weeks ago.

just sad very sad

Does anyone even care? I quit reading his posts weeks ago. Originally Posted by swarmyone

Not even he knows to whom he is preaching. I'm going to join you and stop reading his posts.

I refer you to my signature lines.

Longer, I just read my post again and I did what I accused you of, being rude. So, please accept my apology. I suggest that we agree to disagree.

scorpio we don't do apology in my threads sorry no take backs.

I knew this would come up. LM, Fred Phelps is a registered DEMOCRAT and has ran for office under that party banner. You may apologize at any time.

I can only hope that I get to see a sink hole where the Phelps church now stands and maybe smell the brimstone.

I knew this would come up. LM, Fred Phelps is a registered DEMOCRAT and has ran for office under that party banner. You may apologize at any time.

I can only hope that I get to see a sink hole where the Phelps church now stands and maybe smell the brimstone. Originally Posted by john_galt

I'm a registered Republican, but I've come to the conclusion that they're both the same. At least the Republicans tend to tax less, but both parties are statists...hence my Republocrat avatar. I guess I'm a Ron Paul Republican.

Link with photos of a young Al Gore doing a fund raiser a the Phelps compound. Fred Jr. even served as a Gore delegate at the '88 Democrat convention.

http://www.lcrga.com/news/Fred-Phelp...10251159.shtml

No, I don't think Al is a disciple of Fred, just a very naive politician at the time...

but yes, Fred is a 'left wing wingnut', if you want to get political about it....but at least be correct and honest.

"Phelps has since changed his opinion about Gore when he joined Bill Clinton on the 1992 presidential ticket. Phelps turned on him and claimed Gore was a conservative icon of the Democratic Party that sold out on some critical social issues. Phelps also demonstrated against Clinton and Gore during the 1997 inaugural."
---Conservapedia

"1947
Phelps enrolls in but never graduates from Bob Jones University, a highly conservative religious school known for banning interracial dating (a policy changed only in 2000) and for attacking Catholicism. Ordained as a Baptist preacher at age 17, he spends the summer trying to convert Mormons." [that's pretty fucking conservative!]


It looks to me as though Phelps started out as a conservative and ended up as an ultra-conservative. He calls himself a Democrat, but that party has changed even more than Phelps has. He just refuses to leave his party, even though his party has left him. (Phelps is old. He was born in 1929.)

As far as Phelps running for office...he lost five primaries. Hell, I could do that! YOU could do that! I could run as a Republican and lose a primary election. Would that make me representative of the Republican Party? No.

P.S. If I really ran for office my slogan would be, "let sinners pay taxes for you" and I'd be for legalized prostitution and legalized marijuana. Clever, no?

Oh I get it. You claimed Phelps was a right wing nut...and when confronted with the fact that he is a Democrat, you tell us that he doesn't represent the Democrats and is still a right wing nut.

Why in the hell are we arguing about Phelps?

He doesn't represent anybody.

He doesn't represent anybody. Originally Posted by lacrew_2000

Well said.

"He doesn't represent anybody"

Except his members. Who cares what his politics are? Does it matter David Duke ran as a Republican? No. it only matters he was in the Klan.
So sad. Those men and women died to protect his right to run his mouth and he ruins their last earthly event. A truly awful person.