Slog - Comments on Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church Catches Fire

Comment by scary tyler moore

scary tyler moore — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:14:03 -0800

i vote for the phelpses doing it. pity it wasn't set by someone else and that it wasn't bigger. i though ol' man phelps was on his deathbed! guess not.

Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER

UNPAID BLOGGER — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:17:24 -0800

I'm not sure where he got this, but Joe.My.God. included this juicy tidbit:

Oh, and while the fire department put out the fire, church members picketed them.

Comment by laterite

laterite — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:20:28 -0800

Leona McQueen sounds like a bad-ass little old lady.

Comment by Joe M

Joe M — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:23:50 -0800

Now who does God hate?

Comment by lostboy

lostboy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:28:24 -0800

I hope the neighbor has arranged to will her property to someone trusted who will never sell to the church.

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:56:27 -0800

I want Phelps to die in the same way as the scary ass bishop in Fanny & Alexander. That would be a fitting end.

Comment by nipper

nipper — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:01:30 -0800

if america is doomed and there is no freedom why don't they MOVE somewhere else, make their own new world, they could squat a fucking island or some shit...like the pilgrims! you'd think that shit was obvious.

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:08:17 -0800

I love that "fag court" graphic. Can I be tried there???

Comment by lostboy

lostboy — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:08:22 -0800

@7, but then they'd have no one around to antagonize.

Comment by mike

mike — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:23:45 -0800

the graphic for "fag court" looks vaguely like a gay phelps, bending over the pulpit, so to speak...

Comment by mike

mike — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:24:40 -0800

the graphic for "fag court" looks vaguely like a gay phelps, bending over the pulpit, so to speak...

Comment by suzanne Riley

suzanne Riley — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:29:18 -0800

as a proud fag sympathizer, i must say that this guy is off his fucking rocker, and i hope he gets what's coming to him.

Comment by Vince

Vince — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:31:12 -0800

I don't let that kind of trash bother me.
Violence will only make martyrs of them and we don't want that, now do we? They will destroy themselves. That kind always does.

Comment by Journalism 101

Journalism 101 — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:40:07 -0800

Lost in all this is the phrase "No one got hurt in the fire". How 'bout we try "was", instead of "got"? Or is this the week they're letting the junior high kids write the reports?

Comment by DENVEROLOPIS

DENVEROLOPIS — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:43:20 -0800

I grew up in Kansas and had numerous run-ins (and one attempted run-over) with the Phelps clan. I even had an honest-to-goodness conversation with Fred about South Africa. Funny story. The Phelps' were picketing Archbishop Desmund Tutu when some kids with kerosene filled squirtguns doused Fred and his signs. Sadly, the kids didn't have the balls to light him on fire. It was fun to watch the nutballs scatter and furiously call everyone around them "violent rapists."

Comment by RonK, Seattle

RonK, Seattle — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:00:42 -0800

Sounds to me like a garden-variety "Act of God".

Comment by Al

Al — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:36:27 -0800

I've never actually heard him speak before. He doesn't seen like all that charismatic or persuasive a speaker. Is it just the fact that he's willing to go there on the crazy-hate scale that gets him followers?

Scary.

Comment by Will

Will — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:46:39 -0800

Who ever lit the molotov must be really dumb; you aim for the most populated building then throw! I'm surprised the attempts to actively harm them in the past yeilded very little results, maybe we are learning from this?