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Is Fred Phelps a con artistr or a hate monger?

Is Fred Phelps a con artistr or a hate monger?

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jamesrage

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Is Fred Phelps a con artistr or a hate monger?







Does he really believe what he spews or is this nothing more than a scam for money? I think he is a con artist and nothing more.
 
Is there some reason he can't be both?

Personally, I think he cons people to finance his hate-mongering.
 
I neither know nor care.

Whovian said:
Perhaps one day we'll get to protest at Fred Phelps' funeral with a sign that says GOD HATES FRED PHELPS or THANK GOD FOR A DEAD FRED.
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I prefer the message from here.
 
How come cult leader is not an option?
 
jamesrage said:
Is Fred Phelps a con artistr or a hate monger?

Does he really believe what he spews or is this nothing more than a scam for money? I think he is a con artist and nothing more.
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Probably a little bit of both. I bet he's making a purdy good salary off this scam.
 
Whovian said:
Perhaps one day we'll get to protest at Fred Phelps' funeral with a sign that says GOD HATES FRED PHELPS or THANK GOD FOR A DEAD FRED.
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I would prefer that protesters hold a sign that says Satan is now butt ****ing Fred at his funeral.
 
You know what would be the bee's knees?

Phelps used to be a civil rights lawyer. What if he doesn't hate gays at all or crave attention or do it for the lawyers fees (many of his children are lawyers, after all), but organizes these displays of inhumanity and then fights the inevitable legislative responses in order to ensure First Amendment protections for everybody?

Let's face it, every single time Phelps succeeds in putting on his show, it is a blow struck for freedom of speech.


TED,
Not a Phelps fan, just indulging his inner conspiracy theorist.
 
From what I've read about Fred Phelps, he was one of the first lawyers in Kansas to fight for the civil rights of blacks. However his stance on homosexuality and religion is quite scary but not alien to the Protestant tradition in the South. If anything I would call Fred Phelps a paleo-paleo-conservative (that's two paleo). This type of conservative would be characterized by support for the rights of minorities, a clearly Protestant view of morality and life and rejection of social Darwinism.
 
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Both, for sure.
 
I think he's a soulless bigot that has way to much free time on his hands.
 
Not worthy of any attention.
A good one for the sewer.
 
My understanding is that they make their living suing people or entities which act against them.

11 of his kids are lawyers, and he used to be one himself. They don't even have to sue for money, they just have to win and then collect reasonable legal fees.
 
earthworm said:
Which makes us no better than he is.
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I disagree. What Fred Pleps and his family do is purely for greed. He literally makes a living off of it. If sometime soon Fred croaked and we went down there to protest his funeral it would be for payback and to put the shoe on his family's foot, which more noble that protesting at funerals so you can file lawsuits..
 
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Who determines what these legal fees are? Perhaps these legal fees should be limited.
 
TacticalEvilDan said:
If memory serves, it's established under law and managed by the judge.
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Then couldn't this be changed so that it is not profitable for the Phelps clan to run around protesting at funerals and suing?
 
Personally I think Fred Phelps must be one of the most sexually frustrated and confused persons on this planet.

To commit your entire life to hatred of this kind, means somewhere along the line, either he was gay, or someone was gay with him.

Hate like this doesn't come from no where, it is grown from something.

Where it came from is anyones guess, since his early life is surely a well kept secret. Perhaps he's a victim of some kind of, male on male sexual assault, or perhaps a self loather, who was brought up to believe that gays were the worst thing ever, and when he discovered he was one, his only response was this.

It's difficult to say. At the end of the day I actually pity him, to dedicate your life to hate is not something I ever wish to do. Must be a pretty lonely existence.

Really I couldn't care less, he's made his choice now, the only shame is the kids that have to grow up in his hateful cult.
 
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jamesrage said:
Then couldn't this be changed so that it is not profitable for the Phelps clan to run around protesting at funerals and suing?
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Yes and no. It's possible, but not necessarily practical. You couldn't turn off the spigot for Phelps & Co. without affecting everybody else.
 
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