Podcasts about Fred Phelps

This Little Light of Mine This Little Light of Minea sermon by Rev. J. Christy Ramsey DOWNLOAD A LIVE RECORDING Audio from worship at the 10 AM Worship Service December 29, 2024at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Carson Cityedited from a flawless transcription made by edigitaltranscriptions all errors are mine. John 1:1-18 Sermons also available free on iTunes Akron, Ohio, my hometown, has a Main Street that follows the river. It was a river, and then it was a canal, and then it was road. Then came a flood, and then became a river again because you’ll have that. Goes through – Main Street goes through the lowest part of town because that’s where the river was. That’s where commerce was. That’s where the canal was. And so Main Street goes right like this all the way through town, and it’s the lowest part of town. Over here we have Goodyear Heights. And it’s high. It goes right up. It’s like in the middle of the valley. Goodyear Heights is over here. That’s where the factories are. That’s where the rubber was made, the smokestacks, the work crews, all are up here. And it’s high. It is high up. And in the space of about a mile or two, 10 blocks, you can see it. It goes down to Main Street, and then it goes up to the outside. The outside is West Hill. West Hill’s on the other side of Main Street. Market connects the two. You could, up at West Hill, you can see, and see the whole town. West Hill was where all the rich people lived, the factory owners, the management, because, you know, smoke was all over there, and in the valley it didn’t get up to West Hill. So that’s where West Hill was. Now, my family, my grandma, grandpa, and my brother, my uncle, good people, they were the factory people. They lived over here on the East Side, on Goodyear Heights. And over here is where we moved on up, you know, like that song, “Movin’ On Up” to the West Side. So we moved over here. So we were constantly going from the West Hill down the valley on Market. [Indiscernible] to go visit the family and connect up in church and all that. And so we did that a lot. At one time, I don’t know, late ‘60s probably, we were just at the crest of West Hill where we could see the entire traffic of Akron. We could see Main Street going along the canal. We could see Market Street. And Market, busy, busy throughfare. And I remember one day we were at the crest of the hill, looking down, and we stopped. We pulled over to the side of the road. And I looked, and all through Market Street, 10, 20 blocks, down to Main Street and back up, traffic was frozen. Everything was moved up to the side of the road and stopped. I thought, well, that’s odd. But then I looked, and I saw the flashing lights of a fire engine coming down Market Street. And everybody had stopped and got out of the way and made way for those flashing lights. Fast-forward 30 years, and some of you here know what that’s like. You know, you turn around, suddenly it’s 30 years later? Thirty years later I’m driving those flashing lights on the fire engine, faking it till I make it because no one else would get in the seat, so I did. I’m driving. And I’m learning about flashing lights and about fire department. They tell me, you know, you’re not allowed to go through red lights in a fire truck in Ohio. It’s against the law. You know you don’t have the right of way in Ohio with the flashing lights and sirens. All that is, is a request for the right of way. All that light and shining big red truck is just saying, please, please let us go by. It’s just please, it’s just a request. And we are responsible as firefighters to be driving with due regard as opposed to the rest of the people that have reasonable care. They just have to be reasonable. We’ve got to have due regard. And so they don’t have to get out of the way. They can just go on with their life. They can ignore the light. You know, that light says someone’s in trouble. Someone needs help now. Could you move out of the way? Could you stop just a moment thinking of yourself and of where you’re going and what you need to do? Can you stop, give way, so somebody else could get the help they need? It’s just an ask. And I was new guy there, even though I was older than most of those guys. Oh, that was not – they were very kind to me, you know. But, yeah, on the training events, you know, where they did training, they assigned me the role of “guy who died.” And so they would put me out in a field, and they’d come rescue me so I could just, you know, relax, kind of chillin’. So, but, you know, I try to measure my questions. You’ve been in a new job, you don’t ask every question the first day. I mean, that’s just annoying. You know, you just try to get what you need to get through the day. But there was this one thing, right here in the firehouse garage, right back here, you know, seven feet up, or eight, I don’t know, right here. There was, you know, one of those old metal box light switches like you’ve got in a garage. It was rusty. You remember those things? The conduit came down, it wasn’t pretty. And it was a switch, and there was this old, yellow, brown, moldy paper curled up over it, and you could just make out it said this, in big block letters: “DO NOT USE.” Don’t you want to? Don’t you want to? So I asked one of the old guys, I said, “Hey, what is that? Roger, Roger, what’s with that switch?” He goes, “Oh, that switch. That switch turns every traffic light in town red.” I go, oh. “But we don’t use that anymore.” Yeah, yeah, I saw the sign, yeah. He goes, “Yeah, the right turn on red, nobody stops anymore.” No one follows the lights. They just keep moving. Christ the light of the world came into the world. And what does light do? Light shows you there’s other people beside yourself. Light can show you, reveal that there’s more people than just you here. And sometimes, yes, sometimes those people need help that you don’t need, but they need. You know, when I think back at that time in Akron, that really impressed me, to see all the traffic in the city stopped because some stranger somewhere was in trouble, and everyone agreed that that traffic mattered. Not all traffic mattered. That traffic mattered because they needed help. And because they were in trouble, and because they were hurting, we could step by and allow them to get the help they need. I had a hard time with the sermon today because you know I’m going to be political. You know what the difference between political is for – political is other people. When it affects me, that’s morality. That’s important. When it affects other people, well, that’s politics. I don’t have to worry about that. Don’t talk or bother me about it. I only want to talk about me, me, me. That’s morality. That’s right and wrong. Did you know that fire trucks and fire engines and fire departments used to be politics? Fire insurance the politics in that. Because you see, back in the day, I know it’s hard to imagine, but see if you can wrap your heads around this concept, that lifesaving care of the fire department was dependent on insurance companies. I know, who would have thought such a thing? If you did not have insurance, your house burned down. You could die. Your possessions were gone. If you didn’t have any a fire insurance mark. Such a thing shouldn’t exist. If you go to some old fire departments, maybe even here in Carson, you can see what they called fire insurance marks, a metal plaque. What they were, they were these big metal plates, usually some kind of star shape, was fastened on the front of the house displaying which insurance company the fire department covered for this house. And if you didn’t pay your money, you didn’t get signed up during open enrollment, had a pre-existing conditions, you can’t pay the fire department at the fire. They’ll come for the fire, would put out your neighbor’s fire that had insurance, but you just burned down. You could be out there crying, offering to pay. No. No, you didn’t buy the insurance. You just burned down. That’s the way it is. That’s the way it is. That’s fair. That’s law. That’s the rules. That’s the way it is. Back then there’s no other way to imagine. Luckily, we thought that was silly. We thought that was immoral. We thought people that were in trouble, people that were going to go bankrupt, people that were facing financial ruin from fire’s destruction, we think, no, that will not be dependent on whether or not they paid their insurance premium. They’re our neighbors everybody here needs to be safe, regardless, so their house doesn’t burning down from a neighbors fire, or if they’re not safe, at least there’s help on the way. And we’re not going to check the insurance rolls and get preauthorized approval before we put wet stuff on the red stuff. No matter who you were, no matter what your morals were, no matter where you were in the country. When I was on the fire department, if you were in trouble, we came, and we did all we could to save your life and your property. We came with those lights that showed that there’s other people in the world that need help, that there’s other traffic that mattered. Those lights that showed that there are some people hurting. Can you please just get out of the way and let us help them? I don’t know what’s coming up. No one knows what’s coming up. But I’m going to say there’s going to be a lot of fights over light. Over light. We’re not the light. We’re not Jesus Christ. We’re not the light of the world. We bear witness to the light. We say Lord Jesus Christ comes to bring light to the world. Everyone. We’re not going to keep things in the dark because that’s not what our Christ says. Our Christ is the light of the world, not the dark of the world. So when people said, we’re not going to report maternity deaths anymore, we’re not going to report them, we’re going to put them under the dark, we’re going to [indiscernible] light of the world. We want to know about those people. We want to know if they need help. We want to turn on the light and go to them if they need it with sirens blazing, no matter who they are, [indiscernible] been, what the color of their skin is, what their nationality is, how much their income is, what their employment status. Turn on the lights. Christ is the light of the world, and we don’t abide by keeping people in the dark. I’ve only been in the ministry for 40 years. I can remember, I remember when there was a school shooting, everything stopped. We had special church services, and we had special prayers, and we knew the names, and we said the names, and we prayed for the people. We even wrote, in one church I had, to the people that were there. And I also remember that a church I was in, when someone stood up a couple years later to pray for the latest school shooting, and the leader says we can’t pray for that. That happens all the time. It’s not special. The number one killer of children in America, our country, is gun violence. Number one. If anyone from a foreign country or any other force came and killed our children like guns are, we would stop it the next day. But it’s in the dark. Did you know it’s illegal for Congress to spend money to study gun violence as a health issue? It’s not allowed. Keep that stuff in the dark. We’re not people of the dark. We’re people of the light. And we say the light comes to everyone of the world, not just some people in the world. It comes to all. It’s right there in John. We read it today. We believe it. We’re the ones that are going to come out and say, oh, no. We follow the light of the world. You’re not going to cover up all these things in the dark. We’re here to tell you. And if someone needs help, we’re at least going to get out of the way. And we might even be on that truck with lights and sirens. Get out of our way. We’re helping people that need help. And no, we’re not checking their insurance cards. That’s what it means when the light of the world comes into the world. Now, it’s not without controversy and upsets and changing this back to the way things were, you know, and that’s it. That’s the only thing that can happen. Not even from other Christians. Have you heard about Westboro Baptist Church and Fred Phelps? They’ve kind of not been around as much. But it used to be a big thing. They’d go to funerals and protest and curse people at funerals of veterans, and veterans coming home. They go to churches and demonstrate. They go everywhere and demonstrate and make things about how terrible and awful the people were who were trying to go to a funeral or trying to have a service. They went to Chicago to the Trinity UCC Church, who are unashamedly Christian and magnificently black [indiscernible], that’s their motto up there. Trinity UCC Church, a great history. And Dr. Morris was there, and Moss was there, and comes to church. I don’t know if he walked the labyrinth before church, or maybe they gave him a key, I don’t know. Could happen. But he was there early, and they were there, Westboro Baptist Church, cursing people going to church, calling them horrible awful names. Imagine, if you will, coming to church, coming to the official church, and it’s kids, it’s old ladies and good people and maybe some people that are hurting. Who knows? People come to church when they’re hurting, sure. And they get cursed at. They get damned. They get yelled at on the way. And Dr. Moss, like a lot of good pastors do in big churches, went to the choir because that’s where you go because you know the choir, they’re kind of the zealous of the church. If you had a choir, you would know this. Don’t be messin’ with the choir. You know. These are the shock troops of the church. And he went to the choir, and they had a hundred people in the choir, robed choir, hundred people. They rocked and rolled it. And he told them there’s people out there cursing our people coming into church. They’re cursing the small children, the little children. They’re yelling at the old ladies. They’re making things – they’re going through hell, and they need protection. They need help. I want you to go out there. I want you to robe up. And I want you to go out there, and I want you to sing so loud that they cannot hear those curses. I want you to sing so loud that they come in to praises and not to curses. I want you to sing “This Little Light of Mine.” This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine. This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine. This little light of mine, I’m gonna to let it shine, Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine. And they sang that song and overwhelmed the chants, and people coming to church were protected. People that were vulnerable were shielded from the hate and from the awfulness that was there. And they didn’t just do it and ignore the people that were saying the curses and the things. They offered to pray for them. And when they were turned down, you don’t get in the way of the choir. When they were turned down, the choir went ahead and prayed for them anyway, right there out in front, so it was in the midst of the cursing and the damnations and the awfulness and the racial things was prayer and praise. That’s light. That’s light. When someone’s hurting, when someone’s vulnerable, when someone’s being attacked, the people of the light are there. It could be a choir singing “This Little Light of Mine.” It could be people on the fire truck with lights and sirens. It could be people in the courtroom saying we want to know how the health of our mothers are doing and whether what we’re doing is killing them. We want to know what’s going on in our schools and our children and are they safe, and what’s going on with that? Why do they die so much, and no other nation has this trouble? Don’t sweep it under the rug. Shine the little light on it. We’re going to be light shiners. We’re going to be looking for those that are in the dark and bring them into the light and say we are here to help you. You don’t have to. You don’t have to give out the right of way. But man, it’s great when we can look out for one another and refuse to accept a city that’s on fire because someone didn’t pay their insurance, because someone didn’t have the right placard up. We said no, we’re not going to let you lose everything and die because you didn’t pay the insurance premium. You know, that’s one step away from “A nice little house you got here. Too bad if anything would happen to it.” Little protection money over there. Friends, we can be different. John says the world is different because Jesus Christ came into the world. The light came into the world, and darkness fled. Let us be the little light. Let us be the light that helps those that are in the dark and are hurting. Amen.

Be Skeptikal Dammit:    - GMO Label Scam  - Organic Label Scam  Researched:  Fred Phelps & The Westboro Baptist Church Positive:  Oral Antibiotic Advancing Cystic Fibrosis Treatment   References: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/09/20/going-green-means-big-bucks-corporations-these-campaigns-scams-column/2310830001/#:~:text=Don't%20buy%20the%20non%2DGMO%20scare%20campaign&text=Food%20companies%20are%20rushing%20to,GMOs%20has%20largely%20been%20successful.   https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensavage/2016/06/11/the-non-gmo-food-label-is-a-lie/?sh=7830a7844b70   https://saifood.ca/food-scam/   https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/11/15/the-great-organic-food-fraud   https://reason.com/2023/02/04/the-usda-cant-stop-organic-food-fraud/   https://modernfarmer.com/2020/01/the-inside-story-of-one-of-the-biggest-organic-farm-scams-in-history/   https://modernfarmer.com/2023/10/can-you-trust-organic-label/   https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/westboro-baptist-church   https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/fred-phelps-founder-westboro-baptist-church-dies   https://www.npr.org/2019/10/09/768665099/granddaughter-of-westboro-baptist-church-founder-chronicles-leaving-in-unfollow   https://observer.com/2019/04/megan-phelps-roper-westboro-baptist-church-activist-profile/   https://time.com/32564/fred-phelps-westboro-baptist-obituary/   https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/phelps-family-westboro-baptist-church-fred-death-louis-theroux-documentary-surviving-americas-most-hated-313174   https://www.nihr.ac.uk/news/landmark-clinical-trial-shows-effectiveness-of-oral-antibiotics-in-treating-cystic-fibrosis/25770   https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-new-breakthrough-therapy-cystic-fibrosis

Complicated would be very mild way to describe today's subjects. They're both did big things in Kansas, but that's about where the similarities stop. Join Bael and Riff for a look at two men who took standing on your convictions to the extreme. 

We've all seen the awful signs the Westboro Baptist Church holds up at their disgusting pickets, whether that be at soldier's funerals, university campuses, pride events and more. In today's episode we are doing a deep dive on the WBC from the founder's birth to where they are today. So, buckle up buttercup because, this shit is hateful! Trigger Warnings: CultHomophobia RacismAnti SemitismHate SpeechPhysical AbuseReligious AbuseSpiritual Abuse1 Animal Muder (Not Graphic) Mentions of AbortionDementiaLauren Drain tells her story through her new podcast called Triggered. https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1680976469&i=1000607603644Lauren Drain's Link Treehttps://linkgenie.net/laurendrainfitBanished | Lauren Drain's Bookhttps://amzn.to/3QTqSCs(Commision Link) Unfollow | Megan Phelps Roper Bookhttps://amzn.to/3QvfqeZ(Commision Link)Phelps Kids interview on The Rosie Showhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxEmCFLMq7o&t=665sDortha Bird Interviewhttps://www.facebook.com/fromhatetohope/videos/1887570784796901/Interview with Mark Phelpshttps://www.facebook.com/fromhatetohope/videos/1887563688130944Interview with Nate Phelpshttps://www.facebook.com/fromhatetohope/videos/1887575568129756Loui Th. Documentary Links (3 Parts)https://ia804509.us.archive.org/20/items/Louis_Theroux_-_Surviving_Americas_Most_Hated_Family_m0006vv7_signed/Louis_Theroux_-_Surviving_Americas_Most_Hated_Family_m0006vv7_signed.mp4https://watchdocumentaries.com/the-most-hated-family-in-america/https://watchdocumentaries.com/americas-most-hated-family-in-crisis/ Follow Us On Social Media The PodcastTik Tok @DeadlyFaithPodcastInstagram @DeadlyFaithPodcastLaciTik Tok @Laci_BeanInstagram @Laci__BeanLolaTik Tok @hellotherelolaInstagram @Spellbound_Shears

Listen to this preview of our Patreon-only podcast, where in this episode we talk to our head of Internal Relations and writer, Adrian Cornejo, about the Westboro Baptist Church. The WBC, established in 1955 by a pastor called Fred Phelps in Topeka, Kansas, is a church which has gained a reputation for its extreme and widely condemned rhetoric and actions. Labeled as a hate group, the WBC is recognised for its inflammatory protests targeting various communities, particularly the LGBTQ+ population, and its provocative slogans. Listen in full only at patreon.com/moderninsurgent. Follow our featured writer on Instagram: @acornjoe_

On this episode of More Deadly: The Director's Cut, we have a conversation with Jacqueline Castel, director of My Animal. We talk about her brilliant use of color, exploring the horror of isolation, her leads' powerful chemistry, and how a wolf pup and Fred Phelps impacted her film. Listen to The More Deadly Director's Cut with... Read More The post More Deadly: The Director's Cut with Jacqueline Castel of ‘My Animal' appeared first on The Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast.

On this episode of More Deadly: The Director's Cut, we have a conversation with Jacqueline Castel, director of My Animal. We talk about her brilliant use of color, exploring the horror of isolation, her leads’ powerful chemistry, and how a wolf pup and Fred Phelps impacted her film. Listen to The More Deadly Director's Cut with... Read More The post More Deadly: The Director's Cut with Jacqueline Castel of ‘My Animal' appeared first on The Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast.

F*** Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist ChurchTW: In general we talk about a lot of potentially triggering topics on this show, including but not limited to suicide and mental health, racism, misogyny, PTSD and PTSD symptoms, child abuse, mental, physical, and sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse including guilt, shame, and fear. In most episodes we'll mention at least a few of these topics, but we try very hard to avoid graphic detail unless it's relevant to the story we're telling, and we do our best to give the audience a heads-up before going into detail on any of these topics. This episode carries a very strong TW for homophobia, as well as trigger warnings for misogyny, transphobia, toxic theology, antisemitism, abortion, street preaching, and deaths of soldiers at war. We've made it our policy not to repeat slurs in quotes on our podcast, but we will make reference to them, and we will be talking about these things as sensitively as we can, and we'll give you a heads up before anything especially heinous. An extended, uncensored, and ad-free version of this podcast episode is available to subscribers at Patreon.com/LeavingEdenPodcastWE HAVE NEW MERCH AVAILABLE, AND A NEW MERCH SHOP, at https://leavingedenpodcast.threadless.comStream the Leaving Eden Podcast theme song, Rolling River of Time on Spotify! https://open.spotify.com/artist/6lB7RwSQ9X5gnt1BDNugyS?si=jVhmqFfYRSiruRxekdLgKA.Join our Facebook Discussion group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/edenexodusJoin our subreddit! Reddit.com/r/EdenExodusInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/leavingedenpodcast/https://www.instagram.com/sadiecarpentermusic/https://www.instagram.com/gavrielhacohen/Twitter:https://twitter.com/LeavingEdenPodhttps://twitter.com/HellYeahSadiehttps://twitter.com/GavrielHacohenFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/LeavingEdenPodcasthttps://www.facebook.com/GavrielHaCohen Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We circle back in this bonus episode to more apocalyptic or apocalypse-adjacent content given the success of Knock at the Cabin and The Last of Us with a film that is unlike any other from its director: Red State. Wake Up Heavy's Mark Begley is subjected once again to a film that may define conventional genre labels but works in spite of that.Starring Michael Parks as a Fred Phelps-type pastor, it follows his family as they wreck havoc on the small Midwestern town they occupy, culiminating in a Waco-like assault on their compound. John Goodman and Melissa Leo are along for the ride in a film that doesn't feel like Kevin Smith directed it, but we're glad he did.For more episodes of the Kulturecast along with many more podcasts that are guaranteed to be your new favorite audio obsession, check out Weirding Way Media at weirdingwaymedia.com.

Banished author, fitness model, and registered nurse Lauren Drain joins Lola and Meagan to talk about her upbringing in the Westboro Baptist Church. They'll discuss the group's hateful and cruel picketing of public events, how Lauren's family joined after her dad intended to make a mockumentary about the church, how tightly controlled everyday life was, the very normal thing that got her kicked out, and the tragic end days of the founder Fred Phelps. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp! Learn more and save 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/trust Quote your car insurance at Progressive.com to join the over 29 million drivers who trust Progressive! Got your own story about cults, extreme belief, or abuse of power? Leave a voicemail or text us at 347-86-TRUST (347-868-7878) OR shoot us an email at TrustMePod@gmail.com CHECK OUT OUR MERCH!!! bit.ly/trustmemerch INSTAGRAM: @TrustMePodcast @oohlalola @meaganelizabeth11 TWITTER: @TrustMeCultPod @ohlalola @baberahamhicks TIKTOK: @TrustMeCultPodcast

Westboro Baptist Church has been labeled a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center, along with any sane person who has heard their rhetoric.  Pastor Fred Phelps started the church in 1955 and their congregation is made up of Fred, his family members, and some brain-washed friends.   They are most known for picketing outside military funerals, celebrity funerals, and public events with signs that praise the death of that person for being a sinner.   Fred Phelps died in 2014, and unfortunately did not take Westboro with him.  His family still run the church today and keeps spewing their hate-filled doctrine.  Sources https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/westboro-baptist-church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Phelps www.godhatesfags.com Join us on PATREON!  https://www.patreon.com/MysteryHistoryPodcast Buy our merch! https://www.mysteryhistorypodcast.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mysteryhistorypodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mysteryhistorypodcast/support

Caelan tells Hoots and Mandy about Reverend Fred Phelps; the world's most hateful preacher! Follow Respect the Dead on Twitter or Instagram and sign up on our Patreon Here!Episode Links: Poker Face Parody

This weeks false teacher is the late Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church

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Everyone knows the protests. Everyone hates these people. But did you know it was all based around a guy trying to make money without doing any real work?You can follow the show here:https://ifyoucatchmygrift.com/Twitter: @catchmygriftpod@catchdalton@austinagogo@charly_buttersInstagram: @catchmygriftpodhttps://www.facebook.com/IfYouCatchMyGrift/Sources: https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/10/26/34543412/matthew-shepard-is-the-worlds-most-famous-gay-hate-crime-victim-but-was-he-really-killed-for-being-gayhttps://radaronline.com/exclusives/2012/12/westboro-baptist-church-anonymous-protest-sandy-hook-victims-funerals/https://blank.org/addict/https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/battle-hate-groups/351238/https://web.archive.org/web/20130101115350/http://cjonline.com/indepth/phelps/stories/080394_phelps16.shtmlhttps://www.kansas.com/news/article1137753.htmlhttps://blank.org/addict/https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-the-reviled-westboro-baptist-church-makes-money-2015-6https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/westboro-baptist-churchhttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/1999/03/man-who-loves-hate/https://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/facts-and-case-summary-snyder-v-phelpshttps://www.npr.org/2019/10/10/768894901/how-twitter-helped-change-the-mind-of-a-westboro-baptist-church-memberhttps://www.salon.com/2013/02/07/two_phelps_kids_bravely_defect_from_westboro_baptist_church/https://www.godhatesfags.com/video/hatemongers.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/21/us/fred-phelps-founder-of-westboro-baptist-church-dies-at-84.html?searchResultPosition=13 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/books/review/megan-phelps-roper-unfollow.html?searchResultPosition=7

'True Crime & Chill' is back! Join host @moneybagsgabs as she returns with guests @MarkPiselli13 and @cgreenbartlett to discuss the wild life of Fred Phelps and his journey to create the hate-filled Westboro Baptist Church that we all know today. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/true-crime-chill/message

A one-time civil rights attorney turned religious terrorist, Fred Phelps was one of the most hated individuals in the US. As the leader of a cult-like church in Topeka Kansas, Phelps would terrorize families at military funerals, and other public venues, spewing his hate and brainwashing his followers. Truly a shell of a human, today we discuss the dark history of the human cockroach that should have been eradicated from the earth sooner, Fred Phelps. Get more at http://www.darksidepod.com Visit our True Crime podcast website http://www.darksideofwiki.com

A one-time civil rights attorney turned religious terrorist, Fred Phelps was one of the most hated individuals in the US. As the leader of a cult-like church in Topeka Kansas, Phelps would terrorize families at military funerals, and other public venues, spewing his hate and brainwashing his followers. Truly a shell of a human, today we discuss the dark history of the human cockroach that should have been eradicated from the earth sooner, Fred Phelps. 

On this weeks episode, we get an inside look at what it's like growing up in the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. We had the privilege to speak to Danni Phelps, the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the founder of the WBC. Danni jokes about how she is everything the church hates, with her being in the LGBT community and an ex-Marine. Come and listen as we laugh and cry through her deconstructing story, and how she is still finding her way through it. You can find Danni Phelps on TikTok: @danni_phantom7 Her shared account with her girlfriend Autumn: @thatwestborolesbian --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/burningeden666/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/burningeden666/support

On this weeks episode, we get an inside look at what it's like growing up in the infamous Westboro Baptist Church. We had the privilege to speak to Danni Phelps, the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the founder of the WBC. Danni jokes about how she is everything the church hates, with her being in the LGBT community and an ex-Marine. Come and listen as we laugh and cry through her deconstructing story, and how she is still finding her way through it. You can find Danni Phelps on TikTok: @danni_phantom7 Her shared account with her girlfriend Autumn: @thatwestborolesbian --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/burningeden666/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/burningeden666/support

A one-time civil rights attorney turned religious terrorist, Fred Phelps was one of the most hated individuals in the US. As the leader of a cult-like church in Topeka Kansas, Phelps would terrorize families at military funerals, and other public venues, spewing his hate and brainwashing his followers. Truly a shell of a human, today we discuss the dark history of the human cockroach that should have been eradicated from the earth sooner, Fred Phelps. 

Free Speech Hate Speech Counter Speech The first crossover episode between May it Displease the Court, which looks at corruption in the courts from judges through dark money anti-democratic far-Right donors, and RhetoricLee Speaking, banishing banality one speech at a time. Your co-hosts, Mary and Lee, look at censorship, free speech vs. hate speech, and counter speech. Here are the highlights:   1) as much as we may want the law to recognize hate speech sometimes when truly vile opinions (in our opinions) are being circulated, the law does not recognize a hate speech exception to the first amendment that guarantees the right to free speech and    2) if there were such an exception it would be used to suppress minoritized people and their fight for civil liberties more often than it would be to silence transphobic, racist, sexist, and other kinds of exclusionary speech.   We take you through a few cases that have been instrumental in establishing the “no hate speech” exception including Snyder v. Phelps SCOTUS 2011 (Westboro Baptist Church) and Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence , 468 U. S. 288    We also look at some personal examples. Mary discusses an experience at the Anne Frank House right after 9-11 and Lee discusses a current campus event where the free speech of a racist and transphobic student is being protected. They also discuss potential alternative terms to replace hate speech, including “racist erasure” and “transphobic erasure.”   Finally, Mary explains the issue of “school-sponsored speech,” in which first amendment rights come up against the purpose of educational institutions and the need for more counter-speech on the Left as the corrective for hateful-speech-that-isn’t-hate-speech by the anti-democratic far-Right funded by pro-corporate dark money donors.   Check out May it Displease the Court on Apple Podcasts, Podbean, and Spotify!   Resources The Dark Money Behind Campus Speech Wars First Amendment | US Constitution Harry CONNICK, Individually and in His Capacity as District Attorney, etc., Petitioner, v. Sheila MYERS. CITY OF SAN DIEGO ET AL. v. ROE William P. CLARK, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Petitioners v. COMMUNITY FOR CREATIVE NON-VIOLENCE et al. Fairness Doctrine: History and Constitutional Issues Local and Independent Television Protection Act would overturn a Trump-era rule that’s permitted… Watch Field of Vision - Do Not Split about the suppression of Hong Kong pro-democracy protests   Read the blog version: https://rhetoriclee.com/free-speech-hate-speech-counter-speech/   *Learn more at https://rhetoriclee.com  *Follow the show  on Facebook and on Instagram @rhetoriclee  *Subscribe to the show on iTunes/Apple Podcasts, on Google Podcasts, on Stitcher, on Youtube, on Spotify, or via RSS *Take 20 seconds to leave a short review and 5 star-rating (I’ll even take 4 stars, I’m not greedy). Reviews help future #rhetoricnerds find the show! *Have thoughts? Hit me up on social media or Gmail @rhetoriclee   Free Speech Hate Speech Counter Speech   Mary: I was flying back from France when the planes hit the Twin Towers. After US airspace was closed my plane was turned back to Amsterdam. I spent an extra week in Europe until I was able to get back home. After a few days of securing funds bc I had no money and no credit card. We decided to do a little sight seeing and went to the Ann Frank House. I had been interested in the Holocaust since I was in elementary school and had read and studied it extensively.    Set the scene  - First you went on a tour and saw the attic where Ann and her family and another family hid out from the Nazis. I saw her bedroom and the pictures she pasted on the walls. We saw the hidden bookcase entrance. It was really emotional to be stranded in another country, far away from family.    Describe the exercise –Then you descend into a part of the House that is more like a typical museum exhibit. They have the tour group sit around a table and in front of each person were two buttons, red and green and above the table were two lines of lights. At the end was a screen and on came a film that showed footage of far right Austrian politicians saying racist, hateful things and then the moderator asked whether we thought that speech should be protected, hit the green button or censored hit the red button. We did and the vast majority supported free speech. This process was repeated several more times and each time the speech got more extreme and then they started adding in comments that made it seem as if more people were supporting these hateful politicians and the votes became 50/50 free speech and censorship and by the end the vast majority had shifted from supporting free speech to supporting censorship of speech they didn’t like. I have never been a part of anything like that type of indoctrination before or since.   My reactions - I was pretty pissed because it was clearly a pro-censorship propaganda tool and it worked with the people in my group. Kind of soured my opinion of the Ann Frank House. I mean, I’m an American so the 1st Amendment; Freedom of Speech is beat into our collective identity. I was a law student at the time. I had recently taken Constitutional Law and studied this very topic. So I fully believed that the best medicine for hate speech was more speech, not censorship. Now, of course this was 2001, Fox news was 5 yrs old, it was just starting to ruin my former mother-in-law. Charles Koch and his brother were still toiling away in secret trying to remake the way American think. But I did get where the museum was coming from. Some ideas aren’t just offensive, they are dangerous and what do we do with those?   What is a Hate Crime?  the FBI has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity,” including skin color and national origin.  Hate crimes are overt acts that can include acts of violence against persons or property, violation or deprivation of civil rights, certain "true threats," or acts of intimidation, or conspiracy to commit these crimes. The Supreme Court has upheld laws that either criminalize these acts or impose a harsher punishment when it can be proven that the defendant targeted the victim because of the victim's race, ethnicity, identity, or beliefs. A hate crime is more than than offensive speech or conduct; it is specific criminal behavior that ranges from property crimes like vandalism and arson to acts of intimidation, assault, and murder.  Victims of hate crimes can include institutions, religious organizations and government entities as well as individuals.   1st Amendment  - What does it say? Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.   What is Hate Speech? – Hate speech is subjective, meaning it means different things to different people. It’s a term that is thrown around as if it has a set definition. But, it doesn’t. Hate Speech is not a legally defined term.  The 1st Amendment protects the free exchange of ideas even if the expression of those ideas is considered offensive or hateful.  Matal v. Tam (2017) SCOTUS 8-0  Held that a fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that the government may not punish or suppress speech based on disapproval of the ideas or perspectives the speech conveys. It does not permit discrimination based on viewpoint and like it or not giving offense is a viewpoint. Any oft repeated idea in Sup Ct case law is "the public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers.   What do most people mean when they use the term hate speech? Typically it is used to describe speech designed to demean, vilify or incite hatred against a group or class of people because of their race, religion, sexual or gender identity, disability or national origin.   If this speech is copacetic with the 1st Amendment, are there any legal limits on speech?   Yes Speech becomes criminal when it is a specific threat of violence or incites imminent criminal activity targeted at a specific person or group. “fighting words” — face-to-face personal insults addressed to a specific person, of the sort that are likely to start an immediate fight. But this exception isn’t limited to racial or religious insults, nor does it cover all racially or religiously offensive statements. other narrow exceptions, such as for true threats of illegal conduct or incitement intended to and likely to produce imminent illegal conduct (i.e., illegal conduct in the next few hours or maybe days, as opposed to some illegal conduct some time in the future). Indeed, threatening to kill someone because he’s black (or white), or intentionally inciting someone to a likely and immediate attack on someone because he’s Muslim (or Christian or Jewish), can be made a crime. But this isn’t because it’s “hate speech”; it’s because it’s illegal to make true threats and incite imminent crimes against anyone and for any reason, for instance because they are police officers or capitalists or just someone who is sleeping with the speaker’s ex-girlfriend.   For example, two years ago two students at another SUNY school posted a snapchat of the two of them just lying in bed on Halloween and the caption said “gonna lynch some ni…. tonight.” To me, given the history of lynching, given the way it was phrased, given the use of the racial slur...that should be hate speech.   Problems with excluding Hate Speech from 1st Amendment protection So, eventually a Judge is going to have to decide whether specific words are hate speech or not, not a good idea to give Judges this power. Why?    Speech that makes people angry, or upset is protected by the 1st Amendment – example the Westboro Baptist Church    Snyder v. Phelps SCOTUS 2011 (Westboro Baptist Church) for 20 yrs this group has picketed military funerals to express their belief that God hates the US bc of it’s tolerance for homosexuality. Fred Phelps is the leader the other members are all his relatives. They traveled to Maryland and picketed 1,000 feet from the Church, on public property, in accordance with instruction from local law enforcement by silently holding up signs for 30 minutes that read “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” “Fags Doom Nations” “Priests Rape Boys” “You are Going to Hell''. The soldier’s father filed suit for intentional infliction of emotional distress. A jury awarded him millions in damages. The 4th Circuit reversed the conviction holding that the 1st  Amendment shielded them from civil liability because the statements were on matters of public concern, were not provably false, and were expressed solely through hyperbolic rhetoric. “[S]peech on public issues occupies the ‘ “highest rung of the hierarchy of First Amendment values” ’ and is entitled to special protection.” Connick v. Myers , 461 U. S. 138 . Although the boundaries of what constitutes speech on matters of public concern are not well defined, this Court has said that speech is of public concern when it can “be fairly considered as relating to any matter of political, social, or other concern to the community,” id., at 146, or when it “is a subject of general interest and of value and concern to the public,” San Diego v. Roe , 543 U. S. 77 .  Court must independently examine the “ ‘content, form, and context,’   Even protected speech is “subject to reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions.” Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence , 468 U. S. 288 . Because this Nation has chosen to protect even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that public debate is not stifled, Westboro must be shielded from tort liability for its picketing in this case.  Robert’s opnion – 8-1 (Alito dissenting)   Lee: and when you listen to these examples like Westboro Church of course you want to call it hate speech. I want to call it hate speech. But we always have to remember that even though the law does NOT equally apply to everyone, it pretends as if it does and so any law you want to make would apply to everyone. So you can only imagine what would happen if hate speech were enforceable and Black Lives Matter protests happened…   So while I can really understand wanting the law to step in and shut down some of these vile opinions, I also realize that if hate speech were regulated then it would be used against minoritized persons WAY more often than it would against homophobic speech, racist speech, etc.   How do we get social change if hate speech isn’t a crime? Punishing people for speech we don’t like – slippery slope – Watch Hong Kong Doc – Oscar Nom Don’t Split This is what happens when an authoritarian government – China, wants to stifle pro-democracy speech and to criminalize it. The GOP are authoritarian and anti-democratic as evidenced by their attempts to overthrow the government, propagate the big lie to undercut democracy and the 361 voter suppression bills currently being pushed by Republican state legislatures. What will they do to speech they don’t like if they get back in power?    Counter Speech is the antidote for hate speech – examples, strategies – in the US we believe that the remedy is more speech, not stifling speech. The First Amendment protects the right to advocate and agitate for a change in 1st Amendment law. And you could argue that the law should be changed to exclude hate speech, but this advocacy needs to define what constitutes hate speech, bc it is an undefined term and highly subjective. If the law is changed then it will be up to Judges to apply the new definition of hate speech to whatever circumstances brings about an alleged violation. Eugene Volokh who teached free speech law at UCLA law school, and used to clerk for Sup Ct justice Sandra Day O’Connor and also 9th Cir Judge Alex Kozinski (side note he retired after several law clerks accused him of workplace sexual misconduct including showing them porn at work on multiple occasions)  suggests advocates of this expanded area of non-protected  speech “should explain just what viewpoints the government would be allowed to suppress, what viewpoints would remain protected, and how judges, juries, and prosecutors are supposed to distinguish the two.”   Problems with continuing to say hate speech when it just legally isn’t defensible   --keeps us trapped in a binary of free speech/hate speech. so one side says hate speech the other side says free speech and it’s so obvious a slam dunk for whatever side claims free speech. --in fact, quote-unquote “american” who protect “free speech” are hoping you’ll scream about hate speech because they know it strengthens their position. I’ll give you an example on my campus a bit later when we talk about school sponsored speech   So I actually put a post on my Facebook page asking my rhetoric/communication scholar hive mind what options they suggest for navigating this binary between hate and free speech. What other options are there.   Here are some of the terms they suggested.   Symbolic racism.  Aversive racism.  Implicit racism.  the step below racism “racial animus.” symbolic racial violence overt racism racist erasure   The point isn’t to choose any one of these. The point is that when you’re willing to agree that the binary isn’t working and that counter speech is the only action we have THEN you start getting creative about inventing language to create arguments that short circuit the free speech logics of the opposition. Sure, it’s free speech. That isn’t the point. It’s also racism.    One thing I’ve heard a lot is “hateful speech” because it’s not “hate speech” but it’s close. To me, it’s too easily perverted. The other one suggested by Judith Butler and Wendy Brown is "injurious speech”--granted they’re writing about legal theory and not public protest--but even that seems to imply that we gauge the effects of speech by how HURT or INJURED the person on the receiving end is. I think that’s also a losing battle because it’s based on a subjective experience of injury that the far Right will just deny. We’ve seen this again and again with cancel-culture. “Who could get so upset over some drawings in a Dr. Seuss book?”    So I don’t use those two but I do use the earlier list and try to make the claim that I don’t care if your speech is free or not, it’s still racist, homophobic, etc. And, if necessary, I use a modifier like “symbolic racism.” Not to minimize the effects of the act but to think about what, argumentatively, I can sustain.   Mary what do you think?   Mary: concerns about many of the terms from a legal perspective but racist erasure is compelling and the most accurate description of what’s happening.   Now we are facing new challenges with the proliferation and popularity of propaganda right wing media Fox News, Oann, Newsmax, right wing radio, podcasts facebook, the internet.   Fairness Doctrine – what was it, who got rid of it. A quick google brings up some historical discussions and some negative opinion pieces about how unfair and awful the Fairness Doctrine was by the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute – Koch It was adopted in 1949 - The Fairness Doctrine required that stations provide balanced coverage of all controversial issues of public importance. The Fairness Doctrine never required “equal time” in the sense of strict equality for each side of an issue on a minute-for-minute basis. In talk programs and news coverage, a station just had to make sure that both points of view were presented in such a way that the listener would get exposure to them. How that was done was left to theon’s discretion, and the FCC intervened in only the most egregious cases. By contrast, “equal time” or “equal opportunities” stems from a different source in the Communications Act – the Section 315 provisions on the treatment by broadcast stations (and local cable systems) of candidates for public office. Essentially, equal time requires that, if a broadcast station gives one candidate free time, all other candidates can get the same amount of free time    The Reagan-era FCC eliminated this rule, which was never reinstituted in subsequent decades under either party. a subsequent Trump-era 2017 FCC decision loosened ownership restrictions on stations. In combination, these two decisions not only allowed given stations to present only one view, but for many stations nationwide — now more easily owned by the same conglomerate, such as the conservative Sinclair Broadcast Group — to present the same view. Rush Limbaugh started his talk radio in 1988, Fox began in 1996   Now what?   School Sponsored Speech - The test to establish first amendment protection in the context of school-sponsored speech is laid out in Vanderhurst v. Colorado Mountain College District (2000).  “Whether an action restricting a plaintiff’s school-sponsored speech is reasonably related to the school’s legitimate pedagogical (educational) interests is the test for determining whether” his speech is protected by the First Amendment.    Lee:  Recent issue on campus, an education major--someone who is going to teach children--is posting horrible stuff on social media validating slavery and denying trans identity. Very much racist and transphobic erasure. When the student was suspended from student teaching for violating New York State law as an education major (can’t promote a bias free classroom) he lied on social media saying he was suspended from the school and then the far-Right anti-democratic dark money donor funded legal complex swooped in and miraculously, a few days later, he’s reinstated into his student teaching. Shortly thereafter, he painted over Black Lives Matter symbols on campus with USA and red and blue paint.    TFP Student Action TFP Student Action, a project of “The Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property,” is the front for this operation.   Describes itself as a group that was created to counter “liberal, socialist and communist trends of the times and proudly affirm the positive values of tradition, family and private property.” The petition, which has accumulated nearly 20,000 signatures, describes itself as a peaceful protest and argues that the student’s original suspension “sound[ed] like something right out of a communist gulag, not USA” and further elaborated that “What happened … is not merely an attack on truth, or on free speech, it is an attack against reality itself. It’s all part of the dark money, Koch and Mercer-funded attack on progressive values using “free speech” as their shield.   Speech First Inc. claims to be and is regularly called a grassroots civil rights watchdog is actually a highly professional astro-turfing campaign, with a board of former Bush administration lawyers and longtime affiliates of the Koch family.  Born in 2018, the group seems to have been enacted for the purpose of inserting itself or to put it more accurately to instigate campus culture wars:  Here’s how grassroots this group is – it President Nicole Neily said no students were involved in founding the group. The $5 lifetime membership dues—a requirement for the group to take up a student’s case in court—is a “negligible part” of its funding, which mainly comes from undisclosed backers AKA Dark Money AKA Kochs and their ilk. Speech First’s board of directors includes a former head of a Koch-backed trust and two conservative attorneys from Koch-funded programs.    “being branded as neutral, but having the people who know, know that you’re actually conservative, puts us in a unique position.” The board’s center of gravity is George Mason University, school recently revealed to have given the Kochs some sway over academic appointments in departments they funded – so much for academic freedom Speech First plans to “flood” the courts with similar lawsuits, starting with at least three more at other colleges this year.   Speech First Inc. v. Schlissel (6th Circuit) 2019 In this case, Speech First, Inc., an organization working to protect university students’ civil rights, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction on behalf of three unnamed University of Michigan (UM) students. These three students claimed that their free speech rights were chilled by UM’s disciplinary rules and procedures which prohibited “harassment,” “bullying,” and “bias-related conduct.” Speech First also claimed that the “Bias Response Team” at UM investigated and punished students for engaging in “bias” conduct. “Harassing or bullying another person—physically, verbally, or through 83 some other means” is listed (Speech First v. Schlissel 2018). The Statement, including the violations section, governs all actions on UM property, at UM events, and occurring in the city of Ann Arbor, MI. The BRT was solely an educational resource and a support mechanism for students; it had no disciplinary authority. The term “bias incident” was written to be broad, because the BRT wanted to support any students who needed the resource, not to punish the alleged perpetrators   Speech First Inc v. Killeen (7th Circuit) 2020 - Speech First sued 29 administrators at the University on behalf of four anonymous students. These students claim that they wish to express what they describe as "political, social, and policy views that are unpopular on campus." Speech First's complaint lists examples of such viewpoints in general terms: opposition to abortion, support for President Trump, belief in traditional marriage, support for strong immigration policies, support for the "deradicalization of Islam," support for First Amendment protection of "hate speech," opposition to gun control, and support for LGBT rights. Speech First alleges that three University policies—the responsive action of the Bias Assessment and Response Team and the Bias Incident Protocol to reports of "bias-motivated incidents" on campus, the imposition of No Contact Directives, and the prior approval rule—chill their student members' speech, force these students to engage in self-censorship, and deter them from speaking openly about issues of public concern. Speech First challenges the actions of the University's Bias Assessment and Response Team ("BART"). BART "collects and responds to reports of bias-motivated incidents that occur within the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign community." In turn, BART defines "bias-motivated incidents" as "actions or expressions that are motivated, at least in part, by prejudice against or hostility toward a person (or group) because of the person's (or group's) actual or perceived age, disability/ability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, race, religion/spirituality, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class, etc." In addition, BART "[p]rovides opportunities for educational conversation and dialogue" and "[s]upports those impacted by bias."   determine whether to reach out to the involved students, if they are identified, to invite them to participate in a voluntary conversation. BART also devises a response plan, which could include "[e]ducational conversations," "[m]ediation, facilitated dialogue," "[e]ducational referrals," "[r]esolution agreements," or "[r]eferrals to other offices and/or programs."   Speech First Inc. v. Fenves (5th Circuit) 2020   Conclusion - What the left needs to appreciate is excluding hate speech from the 1st Amendment means it can be suppressed and that is a dangerous proposition especially when we are facing a huge increase in Trump appointed right wing Judges. It is the same tactic Republicans are using by passing bills to suppress the right to vote. Instead of trying to win over voters, to adopt policies that the majority of people support they are just working to suppress the power of those who disagree with them. That is lazy and authoritarian. The left wants to be the opposite of that approach. We need to do the hard work of making the arguments against offensive hateful speech and to engage in the debate as much and as passionately as the right. We don't have the Koch money to create and fund faux grassroots movements.    Lee: and the more popular argument AND if there’s one thing that not being bound by old traditions and outdated categories gets you, it’s the ability to think critically and creatively about new identity positions. If anyone can strategize counter-speech, it’s us.   Mary: We also have the numbers. And by using our voices collectively and consistently we can defend inclusivity without trying to exclude offensive speech. 

A one-time civil rights attorney turned religious terrorist, Fred Phelps was one of the most hated individuals in the US. As the leader of a cult-like church in Topeka Kansas, Phelps would terrorize families at military funerals, and other public venues, spewing his hate and brainwashing his followers. Truly a shell of a human, today we discuss the dark history of the human cockroach that should have been eradicated from the earth sooner, Fred Phelps. 

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On this special episode of the Preacher Boys Podcast, Eric Skwarczynski is joined by Zach Phelps-Roper to discuss his time as a member of the Westboro Baptist Church.Covered by virtually every news outlet – including CNN, Fox News, and the BBC – and by documentary filmmakers such as Louis Theroux, the Topeka Kansas church gained notoriety for its controversial public pickets at military funerals, gay pride parades, and other controversial locales.As an ex-member, Zach gives insight into home life at WBC, Fred Phelps, the difficulty of leaving, and the doctrines that drive what has been called "America's Most Hated Church."Find more stories regarding the IFB movement by visiting:preacherboysdoc.comhttps://www.facebook.com/preacherboysdoc/https://twitter.com/preacherboysdochttps://www.instagram.com/preacherboysdoc/To connect with a community who share the Preacher Boys Podcast mission to expose abuse in the IFB, join the OFFICIAL Preacher Boys Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1403898676438188/Support the Show:https://www.patreon.com/preacherboysSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/preacher-boys-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Honestly, I'm more like Fred Phelps than I am like Jesus so it's a good thing God loves Fred.

A one-time civil rights attorney turned religious terrorist, Fred Phelps was one of the most hated individuals in the US. As the leader of a cult-like church in Topeka Kansas, Phelps would terrorize families at military funerals, and other public venues, spewing his hate and brainwashing his followers. Truly a shell of a human, today we discuss the dark history of the human cockroach that should have been eradicated from the earth sooner, Fred Phelps. 

A one-time civil rights attorney turned religious terrorist, Fred Phelps was one of the most hated individuals in the US. As the leader of a cult-like church in Topeka Kansas, Phelps would terrorize families at military funerals, and other public venues, spewing his hate and brainwashing his followers. Truly a shell of a human, today we discuss the dark history of the human cockroach that should have been eradicated from the earth sooner, Fred Phelps. 

Hass gegen Homosexuelle, Hass gegen Juden, Hass gegen alles: Die Westboro Baptist Church ist eine kleine, christliche extrem-fundamentalistische Gruppe in den USA. Was glauben die Mitglieder, woher kommt der Hass? Und warum lohnt es sich, sich auch hierzulande damit zu beschäftigen?

Fred Phelps (1991 – 2014) As Hyles star began to fade in the 1990’s, a new surge of anti-LGBTQ+ activism was on the rise in Topeka, Kansas. Fred Phelps was born a few years after Jack Hyles but his infamy wouldn’t come until much later in life. Unlike Norris and Hyles, Phelps grew up in... The post 113: The New IFB: Even More Hate appeared first on Your Queer Story.

As Hyles star began to fade in the 1990’s, a new surge of anti-LGBTQ+ activism was on the rise in Topeka, Kansas. Fred Phelps was born a few years after Jack Hyles but his infamy wouldn’t come until much later in life. Unlike Norris and Hyles, Phelps grew up in a middle class family in Meridian, Mississippi. His mother passed away when he was 6 years old and his aunt helped Fred Sr raise the two children. Phelps graduated in the top of his high school class and was prepared to enter West Point when a revival meeting changed his plans. Instead, Fred went off to the Baptist super college, Bob Jones University. But quickly became disillusioned with the school that he considered too watered down and liberal. So he headed to California and took up street preaching for several years before meeting his wife Margie and settling down. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yourqueerstory/message

Carl and Holly talk about some of the music videos WBC produced, people who left the church, the death of Fred Phelps, and his successor Steve Drain. At the end of this episode is an interview conducted by Colm Flyn and Charles Hockenbarger who is an elder at Westboro Baptist Church. WARNING: Some subject matter may be sensitive to some listeners due to the word "fags" and "hell". Follow us on: Twitter: @cultscoffeecon1 Facebook: cultscoffeeconversation Instagram: cultscoffeeconvo Email: cultscoffeeconvo@gmail.com. Record a voice message on your smart phone and email it to us! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cultscoffeeconvo/message

In the latest episode of Keep it Wausome, I talk to Sarah Rudolph about life as a drama teacher who wasn't afraid to push the envelope in Wausau. That included bringing to town the Laramie Project, which brought protests from Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. We talk about that and more as Rudolph recounts 30 years as a drama teacher.

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This week Lisa talks about how Black Trans Lives matter and about the police killing of Tony McDade, Kirsten talks about military anti-gay policies such as don't ask don't tell, and Kay talks about the Anti-gay leader of the Westboro baptist church Fred Phelps.

As the granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in a culture of hate. Her family was known for their hateful rhetoric and practice of picketing the funerals of gay people and soldiers. For more than 20 years, Megan didn't imagine a life outside the church—until she got a Twitter account.

You know them, you most likely hate them. Today we discuss the history behind what led to America's most hated "church." Are they a cult or just a hate group? Let us know what you think!@exroommates | exroommatespodcast@gmail.com

On a very special Nonsense Password, Special remembers the time he held the Super Bowl trophy they won from Super Bowl IV in his itty bitty hands. It's a coming of age story with all sorts of celebrity appearances, including Chief's football greats and Fred Phelps.   *****   Thanks for listening to the Nonsense Password podcast which is available at the podcatcher of your choice: Podbean, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, PlayerFM, ACast, Castbox, Himalaya, Radio Public, Castback, Luminary, and others.    The show is pretty random with anything from comedy clips, other clips, ranting, politics, movies, and whatever. There are also special releases of waveplays AKA audiodramas, radioplays, audiofictions, audiononfictions, and other things, including the experimental stuff which may be impossible to explain.    If you enjoyed the show, please like, rate, share, subscribe, or whatever it is you do to spread the word. Despite his best, and continuing, efforts, Special Character is terrible at advertising and desperately needs your help.   Nonsense Password merchandise and other designs by Special Character are available at RedBubble, in the Nonsense-PW store, and at TeeSpring, in the Nonsense Password store.   There is also Nonsense Password YouTube, Facebook page, Instagram, and now even a Soundcloud.   The official website is nonsensepassword.com and you can email Special Character at specialcharacter@nonsensepassword.com.   Good luck,   Twitter: @nonsensepasspod 

Megan Phelps-Roper (@meganphelps) grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church, an organization widely monitored as a hate group for its anti-gay, anti-Jewish, anti-American protests. She left WBC in 2012 and has since written about her experiences in Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. This is part two of a two-part episode. Listen to part one here! What We Discuss with Megan Phelps-Roper: What catalyzed Megan and her sister's departure from the Westboro Baptist Church in 2012, and how do the family members left behind feel about their decision? The logistics Megan and her sister faced when they decided to leave the home and family they'd known their entire lives to start anew in the outside world. What Megan learned about the human capacity for empathy, generosity, forgiveness — and general goodness — by revisiting people she'd formerly picketed in WBC. What Megan's experiences have taught her about the cognitive biases we all have — about everything from religion to politics — no matter how smart we think we are. The four steps others used to break through to Megan and get her to have real conversations, and how we can use them to connect with people who disagree with us on a fundamental level. And much more… Full show notes and resources can be found here: https://jordanharbinger.com/303 Sign up for Six-Minute Networking — our free networking and relationship development mini course — at jordanharbinger.com/course! Hydros filters your water five times faster than any of its competitors, and its relentless commitment to sustainability ensures its hydration products support your values as well as your health. Thirsty for a bargain? Go to hydroslife.com/jordan for a 20 percent discount on your entire order! Pela is helping create a plastic free planet — one case at a time — with the world's first backyard compostable phone case and zero-waste screen protector for phones and Apple watches.

It's exhausting to talk about Westboro Baptist Church. This small cult, made up almost entirely of a single family and their kids' spouses, has caused a tremendous amount of pain around the country. Not only do they hurt those they picket, like families of fallen military heroes, they're often trotted out by media outlets as an example of Christian bigotry. Somehow Christians are often forced to answer for a group that horrifies all of us. Like I said, it's exhausting. Megan Phelps-Roper is the granddaughter of Westboro founder Fred Phelps. She made news a few years ago when she escaped and renounced the cult of her childhood, an experience she describes in a new book. Her story, which I've followed since she first left the so-called church, is absolutely fascinating. And in her recent interview with popular atheist podcaster Sam Harris, Phelps-Roper offers a glimpse into the evil philosophy behind Westboro. According to Phelps-Roper, the group's motivation for publicly celebrating terrorist attacks or praising their so-called God for a deadly famine, is all grounded in a perverted interpretation of God's sovereignty. Because God always accomplishes his will, they believe, and because 1 John 5 says it's not burdensome to love God and His commandments, Phelps and company concluded we must celebrate everything that happens. It's a deeply inconsistent worldview to be sure: Why would they call others to repentance while rejoicing at their arrival into Hell as being God's will?  Nor is it clear how Westboro explains the loving Father God who created His people to enjoy Him forever that is revealed to us throughout the Biblical narrative. Why would we believe that God rejoices in our pain if He sent his Son to suffer and die in order to heal our pain? How many times in the Old Testament do we read that God “hears the cries” of His people? How many times is God described as “the God of all comfort”? Jesus cried when His friend died, and upon seeing the pain that death caused to His siblings, just before He turned their tears into rejoicing by bringing Lazarus back to life! The Phelps family believes so many wrong and damaging ideas, but at the root of them all is a bad idea about God. That bad idea leads to another: that the world today is exactly the way God always intended (not just allowed) it to be. Romans 8 tells us that the creation itself begs (and groans) to differ. Of course, we cannot gloss over the fact that Westboro's goal has always been to get attention. They go where the cameras are. Bad actions are never justified by bad theology, but bad theology does help to explain bad actions. After all, ideas have consequences - and bad ideas have victims. One really bad, wrong idea about God can infect the way we read the Bible and see the world until what comes out of us is nothing less than hateful nonsense. To be clear, Westboro's theological fatalism has much more in common with Islam than Christianity, both in their view of God and in their view of how He acts within human history. Many Muslims see within the Qur'an that Allah does what he wills without any particular affection for his creation. That one idea even infects how the Muslim world handles its own infrastructure. For example, in 2015, after a construction crane collapsed near the Muslim holy site of Mecca, killing 118 people, the Saudi company that operated the crane claimed zero responsibility. What happened was a holy act of Allah, they said. This is why Paul tells Christians to work out their faith. We need to be conscious about what we believe and why we believe it. We need to be vigilant about what ideas we hold, knowing which ideas are shaping our beliefs. That, of course, is why BreakPoint and the Colson Center are here: To bring clarity to the issues and trends surrounding us, and to help believers understand them in the light of a Christian worldview. Nothing brings me more joy than when a mom or a dad stops me at an event somewhere and tells me how BreakPoint provides their dinner table conversations. I know this daily commentary, founded by Chuck Colson nearly thirty years ago, is helping Christians connect their faith to the world around them. I am very thankful to be a part of this. And we exist because of generous listeners like you. So please consider giving a year-end gift. 

Fred Phelps joins me from beyond the grave. Nate Phelps discusses his film kickstarter. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1317569247/not-my-fathers-child The Champion Of Reason goes hunting for Bigfoots.

Sam Harris speaks with Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of Fred Phelps of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church.

An evening with Nate Phelps (son of the late Fred Phelps, founder and patriarch of the Westboro Baptist Church – “the most hated family in America”), in an incredibly moving talk on the Westboro Baptist Church, his childhood he spent growing up in, and how he came to leave his family behind at the stroke of midnight on his 18th birthday. Part of "London Thinks" at Conway Hall.

Former leader of the Westboro Church, the one who protested at all the Militray Funerals saying God hates them and other people for this and that. This man may be a hard one to find…I'm a bit nervous about looking him up on The Other Side. SO. Come for a fun day on The Dear Venus Show!

In this episode, Marth and Eric discuss the death of Fred Phelps, gingers, and more! …

Mike, Bobby and Ben discuss Mike's illegal left turn ticket, Bobby finding his wallet, the death of the founder of the Westboro Church - Fred Phelps, a doctor saying that ADHD doesn't exist, NY state food stamp cuts, the Colts owner getting a DUI, March Madness, a medical student auctioning off her virginity, the Malaysian plane, Crimean sanctions and user tweets.

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Prepare yourself for: Eye gnawing bacteria, Captain Worf, Eggs Benedict, Fred Phelps, and Mulligan Smith. Read the full show notes at http://flashpulp.com

Nate Phelps, the son of Fred Phelps, comes on to talk about why he left the family; What's up with local TV news shows?; Joking about the opposite sex; Jack noticed one of Sheen's nostrils is bigger than the other.