Comments on Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church Catches Fire

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.

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.

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

Now who does God hate?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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."

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

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.

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?