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Fred Phelps Dead

Fred Phelps, Democrat, dead at 84.
 
Yeah, and I'm a Black Panther.
Phelps ran in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times, but never won. These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15 percent of the vote in 1998.[45] In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31 percent of the vote.[46] Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993[47][48] and 1997.[49]

Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primary election.[49] In his 1984 Senate race, Gore had opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm"), a position he had changed by 2000 when he had the support of homosexual advocacy groups for his presidential campaign. Phelps has stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments.[50] According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore's 1988 campaign in Kansas.

During the 1992 presidential campaign, Phelps criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton during a speech he gave endorsing Bill Clinton's presidential campaign at the University of Kansas on October 14, 1992. In 1996 Phelps and the Westboro church opposed Clinton's re-election because of the administration's support for gay rights. The entire Westboro congregation picketed a 1997 inaugural ball,[51] denouncing Vice President Al Gore as a "famous fag pimp" (Gore had changed his positions on gay rights since 1984). In 1998, Westboro picketed the funeral of Gore's father, screaming vulgarities at Gore and telling him, "your dad's in Hell".

Fred Phelps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So I guess that makes you a Black Panther after all. Just as controversial as Phelps! :lamo
 
Fred Phelps - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So I guess that makes you a Black Panther after all. Just as controversial as Phelps! :lamo

Yup, I can call myself a Black Panther. And Phelps was was perfectly free to call himself a Democrat. I'll just assume you're doing this for chuckles, because if you honestly believe Phelps represented any Democrat ideals, there's no reaching you.
 
Yup, I can call myself a Black Panther. And Phelps was was perfectly free to call himself a Democrat. I'll just assume you're doing this for chuckles, because if you honestly believe Phelps represented any Democrat ideals, there's no reaching you.
Did he not himself run on the Democrat ticket multiple times, Did he not support Al Gore and Bill Clinton at one time? Nothing in his biography points to him ever supporting a Republican. He simply parted ways From Clinton and Gore when it came to gay rights. He hated George Bush. So deal with it.
 
Did he not himself run on the Democrat ticket multiple times, Did he not support Al Gore and Bill Clinton at one time? Nothing in his biography points to him ever supporting a Republican. He simply parted ways From Clinton and Gore when it came to gay rights. He hated George Bush. So deal with it.

You probably believe that the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are democracies. I mean, look, they both totally have the word "democratic" in them.
 
You know what? In reality to first order, it's pretty much exactly the same. What, did Phelp's death end our imperial wars in the ME? Fix our economy? Create better public relations between the US and other countries? Reduce the wealth gap? Control police aggression against the People?

No, it did none of that. The world is not a better place today, the world is the same as it was yesterday. So all we have is cheering the death of a human, how Republocrat of you.

That's an extremely limited view of the world. There are a lot of things that can make the world a better place that don't involve peace in the middle east or improving the economy. Someone can decide to go work at a food kitchen or volunteer at a convalescent center and their actions make the world a better place. Today...a horrible and despicable human being left the earth and went to face God. His absence on this planet makes the world a better place. Sorry that you cannot see that.
 
Hallelujia!

There is a special place in hell reserved for this man. The world is a better place today.

I'm not following you. Why would this early warrior against Jim Crow laws being going to hell:

Phelps earned a law degree from Washburn University in 1964, and founded the Phelps Chartered law firm.[18] The first notable cases were related to civil rights. "I systematically brought down the Jim Crow laws of this town," he claims.[9] Phelps' daughter was quoted as saying, "We took on the Jim Crow establishment, and Kansas did not take that sitting down. They used to shoot our car windows out, screaming we were nigger lovers," and that the Phelps law firm made up one-third of the state's federal docket of civil rights cases.[19]

Phelps took cases on behalf of African-American clients alleging racial discrimination by school systems, and a predominantly black American Legion post which had been raided by police, alleging racially based police abuse.[20] Phelps' law firm obtained settlements for some clients.[21] Phelps also sued President Ronald Reagan over Reagan's appointment of a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, alleging this violated separation of church and state. The case was dismissed by the U.S. district court.[21][22] Phelps' law firm, staffed by himself and family members also represented non-white Kansans in discrimination actions against Kansas City Power and Light, Southwestern Bell, and the Topeka City Attorney, and represented two female professors alleging discrimination in Kansas universities.[19]

In the 1980s, Phelps received awards from the Greater Kansas City Chapter of Blacks in Government and the Bonner Springs branch of the NAACP, for his work on behalf of black clients.[21]​

So what are you saying, that people who fight on behalf of black clients alleging that they were racially discriminated against deserve to go to hell for helping to take down Jim Crow laws?
 
Yup, I can call myself a Black Panther. And Phelps was was perfectly free to call himself a Democrat. I'll just assume you're doing this for chuckles, because if you honestly believe Phelps represented any Democrat ideals, there's no reaching you.

Yeah, I suppose being a famous civil rights lawyer doesn't count.
 
You probably believe that the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are democracies. I mean, look, they both totally have the word "democratic" in them.

Apparently the 31% of the Democratic primary voters who voted for Phelps thought that they lived in America and not in the Congo nor in North Korea.
 
This thread has destroyed any faith I might have had in mankind. Dude is dead, and all any one can think about is how to score points on him.
 
This thread has destroyed any faith I might have had in mankind. Dude is dead, and all any one can think about is how to score points on him.

5 points.
 
You probably believe that the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are democracies. I mean, look, they both totally have the word "democratic" in them.

The facts remain, Fred Phelps was a registered Democrat the day he took his last breath. He ran for offices on the Democrat ticket including mayor, governor and senator multiple times. He campaigned for Bill Clinton and Al Gore and was invited to their inaugural balls not once but twice. The first time he went to celebrate with them, the second time he went to protest because Gore and Clinton's views on gay rights had changed from what they held originally. For decades, Phelps helped to get Democrats elected not just by his involvement in national campaigns but has a very long history of working to get local politicians elected until he became "controversial" over gay rights, and protesting soldiers funerals. Then no Democrat politician wanted him near them.

The real hypocrisy lies in how the left leaning news is covering his death. Every left rag on the Internet, Nation, Huffo Puffo, the Beast, Daily Kos etc. to the MSM,( ABC, NBC, CBS,) NEVER mention Phelp's long ties to the Democrat party but instead refer to him as a "conservative" because of the church he started which is mainly made up of his own family members and has no affiliation with any Baptist organizations. NOT ONE has brought up his history as an activist for the Democrat party for decades.
 
This thread has destroyed any faith I might have had in mankind. Dude is dead, and all any one can think about is how to score points on him.

Phelps was just a slightly more proactive version of Phil Robertson. So, in a lot of ways, Phelps simply acted on what the Right Wing Christians were preaching--homosexuals are an abomination, and accepting them was bringing god's wrath down onto us.

Phelps just had the balls to say this at the grave sites of American soldiers.
 
The real hypocrisy lies in how the left leaning news is covering his death. Every left rag on the Internet, Nation, Huffo Puffo, the Beast, Daily Kos etc. to the MSM,( ABC, NBC, CBS,) NEVER mention Phelp's long ties to the Democrat party but instead refer to him as a "conservative" because of the church he started which is mainly made up of his own family members and has no affiliation with any Baptist organizations. NOT ONE has brought up his history as an activist for the Democrat party for decades.

They refer to him as a conservative because HE WAS ONE. Sorry but his views on gays certainly wasn't a liberal view.

Now, that isn't to say EVERY conservative thinks like he did, most do not. However, his views on gays was certainly hard-core right conservative.
 
The facts remain, Fred Phelps was a registered Democrat the day he took his last breath. He ran for offices on the Democrat ticket including mayor, governor and senator multiple times. He campaigned for Bill Clinton and Al Gore and was invited to their inaugural balls not once but twice. The first time he went to celebrate with them, the second time he went to protest because Gore and Clinton's views on gay rights had changed from what they held originally. For decades, Phelps helped to get Democrats elected not just by his involvement in national campaigns but has a very long history of working to get local politicians elected until he became "controversial" over gay rights, and protesting soldiers funerals. Then no Democrat politician wanted him near them.

The real hypocrisy lies in how the left leaning news is covering his death. Every left rag on the Internet, Nation, Huffo Puffo, the Beast, Daily Kos etc. to the MSM,( ABC, NBC, CBS,) NEVER mention Phelp's long ties to the Democrat party but instead refer to him as a "conservative" because of the church he started which is mainly made up of his own family members and has no affiliation with any Baptist organizations. NOT ONE has brought up his history as an activist for the Democrat party for decades.

Good morning, Vesper! :2wave:

Thank you for posting this! The truth should be known about this sicko! :2mad:
 
They refer to him as a conservative because HE WAS ONE. Sorry but his views on gays certainly wasn't a liberal view.

Now, that isn't to say EVERY conservative thinks like he did, most do not. However, his views on gays was certainly hard-core right conservative.

You still didn't address the blatant choice of the media not to mention he was a Democrat and falsely paint him as belonging to the opposing party by the use of the word "conservative" which goes to the point that that not all Democrats are created equal and also hold the same views as Phelps toward gay relationships.
 
He never won any office. So appearently the demos rejected him. Good for them.
You still didn't address the blatant choice of the media not to mention he was a Democrat and falsely paint him as belonging to the opposing party by the use of the word "conservative" which goes to the point that that not all Democrats are created equal and also hold the same views as Phelps toward gay relationships.
 
They refer to him as a conservative because HE WAS ONE. Sorry but his views on gays certainly wasn't a liberal view.

Now, that isn't to say EVERY conservative thinks like he did, most do not. However, his views on gays was certainly hard-core right conservative.

You still didn't address the blatant choice of the media not to mention he was a Democrat and falsely paint him as belonging to the opposing party by the use of the word "conservative" which goes to the point that that not all Democrats are created equal and also hold the same views as Phelps toward gay relationships.

I wouldn't want to own him either.
 
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