R.I.P. Fred Phelps

[dderek123]

Well the good news is that he's dead. The better news is that his little cult will now absolutely fall apart as he was the tie that bound them together. The crazy outsider ex-journalist who joined him will likely try to keep things going but as the doc below showed, he'll like end up doing it alone since his kids don't really want to be a part of the Phelps crazy.



(Louis Theroux does great work! For another really well-done piece full of unintended humour check out his doc on the Neo-Nazi movement in the US )

Here's a nice long interview with Louise Theroux.



The interviewer is a bit annoying though.

[RallyCola]

hmm...i had very vile thoughts of corpse desecration run through my mind and i was happy.

[Ben in LA]

Something is wrong with this picture...

[fred41]

At least now he serves a useful purpose as worm food.

[The Judge]

This

[Always_aUnicorn]

They say you should speak good about the dead. . . He is dead- GOOD!

[bimale69]

good riddance to bad rubbish.

[mildcigar_2001]

I've always thought the Reverend Phelps was mad as a hatter.

I just wonder what went wrong so that he became so obsessed with hating gays. It is one thing not to like gays and disapprove of their lifestyle, but it is quite another to become obsessed to the point you are thinking about the object of your hatred 24 hours a day.

It must be hell to be so obsessed with something to the point it controls your life. Then if hating gays was not sufficient obnoxious behavior he starting protesting at the funerals of America's war dead.

One thing I have noted that a lot of the news coverage has failed to mention that Fred Phelps and his family are all Democrats. Mr. Phelps before he went completely off the deep end had even won awards from the NAACP for his civil rights work as an attorney (prior to disbarment). I suppose it goes to show that any one man is neither all good or all bad.

I assume that the church will be gone in 5-10 years, as most of these type of cults tend to wither away after their charismatic leaders passes away.

[Prospero]

Ironic that when a worthless bigot dies, this thread runs and runs yet when good, creative people pass, the folk here have much less to say. He is gone. Let's just forget him.

[bluesoul]

Ironic that when a worthless bigot dies, this thread runs and runs yet when good, creative people pass, the folk here have much less to say. He is gone. Let's just forget him.

it's also worth noting that most people have basically done exactly what he did