An Oldie and a Baddie

Fred Phelps Sr. has gone where the goblins go. The pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas is dead, like the soldiers whose funerals he picketed with signs that celebrated their death at the hands of his god who punishes Americans for our unholy behavior of supporting gay rights. Freddy passed on to the great beyond where he may have discovered his cloudmate is gay--wouldn't that be a blast?

I cannot allow myself to be happy about the death of this guy. He was a misguided, mean-spirited, hateful, anti-gay, anti-American, anti-fun, and antidisestablishmentarianism, (a word I learned to spell at the age of about eight, thanks to my late sister, Ellen who at that time I lovingly called "Ellen Bellen Watermelon"), kind of person. But to celebrate Phelp's death would put me in the same category as him. Now Osama bin Laden; that's a different story. Like the Afghans who danced along Coney Island Avenue, in Brooklyn, when the buildings came down, I danced when Osama was brought down with a double-tap to the head.

Nate Phelps, the 55 year old son of Freddy, understands why some people are happy that his daddy died. Nate cut out of the church, his daddy's life, and the USA when he was just 18, and moved to Alberta, Canada. There doesn't seem to be any love lost.

So we say goodbye to Rev. Freddy Phelps. But we should not fret--we still have another hate-spreading man of the cloth, the very reverend Al Sharptongue.


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Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., They Came to Take Him Away

"Rev." Fred Phelps Sr., Kansas pastor and founder of an anti-gay, anti-military funeral church is sick. He is also ill and in a health care facility, says Steve Drain, spokesman for the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas. Phelps, he said, is "having some health problems," but made no mention if these problems were psychiatric in nature. I suspect his ego maniacal thinking (that he speaks for God),  has finally caught up to him.

The "As-Reverend-as-Al-Sharpton-is-Reverend" Phelps, founded the Kansas church widely known for its unfeeling, uncaring, heartless protests at military funerals. Phelps is also what some might call "homophobic," but I prefer to label him "latent." 

Drain said Sunday that Phelps is at a Shawnee County facility but refused to mention the name of the place due to threats from the Lord and those who believe that "Reverends," whose congregation hold signs saying: "Thank God for 9/11," and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers," at military funerals, should have their pseudo-religious ass kicked by those who believe that such sentiments deserve a good kicking.

Phelps believes that the deaths of soldiers is punishment for American immorality and our tolerance of homosexuality. I believe we should refer to him as "Imam Phelps." He's on the same page of the Koran, and so are the intolerant cretins who support him and his hateful beliefs.

Hopefully, his time in whatever institution he's in, will give him pause to realize how twisted, evil and sick his thinking is. But I doubt it. This guy is one sick puppy and sadly, he has followers who believe this crap. They rarely see the error of their ways because their self-righteous indignation gets in their way.

In my latest novel, a New York reporter is taken hostage by terrorists. If POTUS refuses to release 3 Gitmo jihadists, the reporter will die in 24 hours—they will behead him and show it on the Internet. There is only one way out but the clock is ticking . . .

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