Estranged son of anti-gay Wtboro pastor says father do 'evil'

Contents:

• PEOPLE ARE LEAVG WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH FOR THE BIG GAY HOE ACROSS THE ROAD
• ESTRANGED SON OF ANTI-GAY WTBORO PASTOR SAYS FATHER DO 'EVIL'
• GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH PROTTS KY. CLERK WHO DENIED SAME-SEX MARRIAG
• ANTI-GAY CHURCH'S RIGHT TO PROTT AT ARY FUNERALS IS UPHELD
• SATANISTS TURNED THE FOUNR OF THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH’S DEAD MOM GAY

PEOPLE ARE LEAVG WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH FOR THE BIG GAY HOE ACROSS THE ROAD

AdvertisementSKIP Drkut/Statman-Journal, via Associated PrsWhen you purchase an penntly reviewed book through our se, we earn an affiliate 8, 2019UNFOLLOW A Memoir of Lovg and Leavg the Wtboro Baptist ChurchBy Megan Phelps-RoperIn 1991, a breakaway church Topeka, Kan., began picketg at a nearby park popular wh gay men. Holdg handma signs that read “Gays Are Worthy of Death (ROM. 1:32), ” members of the Wtboro Baptist Church began what would bee a vic, s-long mpaign agast homosexuals, Jews, Mlims and other perceived the picketers was 5-year-old Megan Phelps-Roper, holdg a sign she uld not read.

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ESTRANGED SON OF ANTI-GAY WTBORO PASTOR SAYS FATHER DO 'EVIL'

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Nate Phelps, son of anti-gay Pastor Fred Phelps, told HLN Wednday he thks what his dad do is evil. STORY HIGHLIGHTSNate Phelps says the actns of his father, the anti-gay Kansas pastor, are "evil"Fred Phelps heads Wtboro Baptist Church, the ngregatn that pickets ary funeralsNate Phelps says his father beat him and his siblgs wh the handle of a diggg toolFor more rmatn on this story, check out CNN affiliate KTVI (CNN) -- An tranged son of anti-gay Kansas pastor Fred Phelps said Wednday that the spirual lear of Wtboro Baptist Church h his wife and beat his children wh a mattock handle until they bled. Nate Phelps lled his pastor father "one of the bt reasons that Ameri has been forced to get off the fence and addrs this issue (of gay rights).

GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH PROTTS KY. CLERK WHO DENIED SAME-SEX MARRIAG

"He's hurt a lot of fai, not only the gay muny, but the fai of the soldiers.

Nothg he n say will change the fact that God hat (homosexuals) and their enablers and therefore God hat Ameri and Ameri is doomed. "He's nvced that homosexualy is the ultimate s agast God.

"So sce the Uned Stat is takg steps to move the directn of equaly for gays Ameri, he says that has doomed Ameri, " Phelps said. Wtboro Baptist Church, church Topeka, Kansas, that beme well known for s strint opposn to homosexualy and the gay rights movement, as exprsed on picket signs rried by church members at funerals and other events.

ANTI-GAY CHURCH'S RIGHT TO PROTT AT ARY FUNERALS IS UPHELD

The church claimed that s theology was based on a strict terpretatn of Calvist Wtboro church began picketg June 1991 at Gage Park Topeka, allegedly a gatherg place for homosexuals.

The church first attracted attentn throughout the Uned Stat October 1998 when picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay llege stunt om Wyomg whose murr was wily nmned as a hate crime. Wtboro Baptist — the Kansas church known for s vilently anti-gay agenda — has wad to the ntroversy over the Kentucky urt clerk who ref to issue same-sex marriage licens fiance of urt is takg aim at Kim Davis, who has gone to jail for refg to allow gay people to marry on the basis that would vlate her Christian beliefs.

SATANISTS TURNED THE FOUNR OF THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH’S DEAD MOM GAY

Wtboro, or WBC, is notor and wily srned for picketg funerals for service members of victims and mass shootgs to draw attentn to s "God Hat Fags" argument that God is punishg Ameri for acmodatg homosexualy. Other events have clud a gay weddg, a drag show and a mock weddg between Dumbledore and Gandalf. Plantg Peace has also engaged large-sle polil activism over the past uple of years, cludg a billboard North Carola that lled out the state's anti-LGBT Hoe Bill 2 and a billboard anti-gay marriage clerk Kim Davis' hometown llg out her You Go15 Thgs To Know About Beg Transgenr By Nicholas M.

Prottg chiefly what they perceived as Ameri’s acceptance of homosexualy, the members of the small Topeka, Kan., church hnted gay pri paras, feral urtho, even ary funerals, wieldg picket signs blazoned wh slogans such as “Thank God for 9/11” and, most famoly, “God hat fags. Pastor Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kan., looks to the sky as he wields plards prottg homosexualy outsi the Albany County Courthoe Laramie, Wyo., on April 5, 1999, where one of the fendants the beatg ath of a gay Universy of Wyomg stunt, Matthew Shepard, will stand trial. Wtboro Baptist Church members om Kansas planned an anti-gay monstratn outsi Wilson High School Long Beach, Calif., Febary 2010.

Wtboro Baptist Church members prott on the Universy of Missouri mp Columbia after football player Michael Sam’s announcement that he is gay, Febary 2014. Make no mistake, Wtboro Baptists’ anti-gay msage is as blunt and offensive as ever, and the new signs seem signed not to move toward the mastream, but to more fully reflect the church’s Calvist theology, which appears unchanged.