FOFA #690 – Shirley Phelps: An Unlikely Champion

Shirley Phelps’ God is angry at you, and probably everything and everyone you know. Why? Because you are gay or you accept gay people.

Shirley Phelps is the spokesperson, matriarch and part-time lawyer for the controversial Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka, Kansas.

Gay folks have known about them for years since they first protested at the funeral of slain gay college student Matthew Shepard. Since then, they have garnered international attention for their protests of military servicemen’s funerals saying it’s “God’s vengeance upon America’s acceptance of homosexuals.” They are known as “America’s Most Hated Family.”

The Phelps family plans to protest at “Brokeback Mountain” actor Heath Ledger’s memorial services. They are even planning a protest outside the red carpet at this years Academy Awards! Gee, I wonder what Shirley will wear? Will her gown match her “God Hates Fags” sign?

[Editor's note: This interview was conducted before Heath Ledger died, on January 24, 2008. We thought it would be interesting to repost our interview with the matriarch of the Wesboro Baptist Church in light of their plans to protest the funerals of the victims of the recent shooting in Arizona.]

Shirley Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church presents TWO choices for America: ONE, imprison and then execute the gays because that’s what the Bible says or TWO, give gays all the same rights that every other American enjoys.

Shirley states that you don’t get to base your discrimination against gays on the Bible’s morality if you don’t have the the determination to back it up. Which to reiterate is imprisonment and then death. There is no soft line stance. It’s black or white.

Which one are you going to choose? Which one is your mother, brother, sister or father going to choose? Ask them, see what kind of answer you get.

Because of this, they might be the “most important GLBT activists since Stonewall” according to Out Magazine columnist Josh Kilmer Purcell. He feels so strongly about them that he started a brand new website: PhagsforPhelps.com.

From Josh’s website phagsforphelps.com:
Stealth homophobes across America have been able to hide for too long behind cuddly phrases like: “love the sinner, hate the sin,” and “separate but equal,” and “tolerance.” GLBT Americans are tired of being “tolerated.” We want to be respected and embraced as true equals, not “loved” as “sinners.

Listen as Shirley Phelps meets Josh Kilmer-Purcell for the very first time on a special Feast of Fools Double Date!

Why do a lot of gay people and Christian fundamentalists hate the pope AND President George W. Bush just for different reasons, why prayers should be best kept to yourself, why you shouldn’t get too close Cheney’s daughter, are leprechauns gay or not and why we are all depraved?

The podcast that is full of it, and by it we mean the Holy Spirit et al- Feast of Fools.

[Originally posted on 01.25.08]

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