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Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. (November 13, 1929 – March 19, 2014) was an American minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, worked as a civil rights attorney, and ran for statewide election in Kansas.
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, that was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps.It is widely considered a hate group, [nb 1] and is known for its public protests against gay people and for its usage of the phrases "God hates fags" and "Thank God for dead soldiers".
Fred Phelps: Kansas: July 20, 1979 — Conduct during his lawsuit against court reporter Carolene Brady. [92] United States federal courts: 1989 (ceased practicing) — Already excluded from Kansas state courts by his disbarment, Phelps agreed to cease practicing in federal courts as part of the settlement for a 1985 disciplinary complaint by ...
Westboro Baptist Church members with protest signs (2000). The documentary focuses on the Westboro Baptist Church, then headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas.Born in 1929 in Meridian, Mississippi, [18] Phelps conducts himself under the belief that he is a prophet chosen by God "to preach his message of hate". [19]
Phelps' attorney, Samuel Bennett, said in an emailed statement Tuesday: "Mr. Phelps took full responsibility for the behavior that resulted in his indictment, as he has done since he was first ...
A Johnson County woman pleaded guilty Thursday to charges relating to the death of her infant son in a Shawnee house fire earlier this year, according to court records.. Karlie Mae Phelps, 28 ...
Alberto Gonzales, attorney general in Republican President George W. Bush's administration, told NBC News: "To willfully ignore the courts could be grounds for impeachment in my judgment — or at ...
Shirley Phelps was born October 31, 1957, in Topeka, Kansas. [2] She is the daughter of Margie Marie (Simms) and pastor Fred Phelps, minister of the Westboro Baptist Church, an independent church characterized as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.