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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".
WBC member protesting Pope Benedict XVI outside the United Nations in New York City, 2008. Westboro Baptist Church carries out daily picketing in Topeka, Kansas, and travels nationally to picket the funerals of gay victims of crimes or anti-gay attacks, as well as those of people who have died from complications related to AIDS.
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]
[4] [5] Her grandfather was Fred Phelps, who founded the Westboro Baptist Church, a Christian sect based on the members' Calvinist interpretation of the bible and categorized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. [1] [2] Her parents taught her the doctrine of the Westboro Baptist Church sect from an early age. She grew up on a ...
Westboro Baptist Church members with protest signs (2000). The documentary focuses on the Westboro Baptist Church, headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas.Born in 1929 in Meridian, Mississippi, [5] Phelps conducted himself in the belief that he was a prophet chosen by God "to preach His message of hate". [6]
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The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), often described as a hate group, [fn 1] was founded by Fred Phelps in 1955 and is headquartered in Topeka, Kansas. [3] The congregation consists of about "sixty or seventy members", the majority of them being Phelps's children, grandchildren, relatives, and in-laws. [4]
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.