Westboro Baptist Church

 

"God hates America"

The Westboro Baptist Church is a Baptist church which is know for its extreme ideologie, especially towards gay people. 

Westboro Baptist Church fist gainde notoriety in 1998, when they picketed at the funeral of Matthew Shepherd. Matthew Shepherd was murdered because he was gay. From that moment on, they kept on protesting at funerals of public figures such as Elizabeth Edwards and soldiers killed in war. Members of this church want God to punish Americans for homosexuality and for tolerating homosexuality. They protest at funerals to make people angry. 

Apart from protesting at funerals and being intolerant towards gay people, members of the Westboro Baptist Church also protest against jewish institutions. In 1996 Fred Phelps, who is the head of the church, led a protest at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. On May 8, 2009, members of the church protested at three Jewish sites in Washington, D.C., including the ADL offices, the United States Holocaust Museum and the city's largest synagogue. Margie Phelps, daughter of Fred Phelps, led the protest, holding signs stating that "God Hates Isreal", "Jews Killed Jesus" and so on.

On the top of all that, they also believe that Barack Obama is the Antichrist and that he will definitely go to hell.  

Even though they have extremly weird views when it comes to homosexuality and other religions, Fred Phelps is a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement and the churchs disapproves of racism. They say that all Nazis are fags. 

Fred Phelps:

Fred Phelps, who was born in 1929, is a pastor and the head of the Westboro Baptist Church, in Topeka, Kansas. Phelps earned a law degree from Washborn University in 1964, and founded the Phelps Chartered law firm.

 Besides his extremly homophobe and antisemitic views, Fred Phelps describes himself to be a Democrat and even supported Al Gore in the elections in 1988, as Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" (Gores opion, however, changed in 2000).

Fred Phelps has five children, and two of his sons, Nathan and Mark, oppose their fahters views and do not want a relationship to their father. Since 2004, 20 family members of Fred Phelps, left the church.