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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.
Olympic champion Michael Phelps announced that his father, Fred Phelps, had died, and shared photos of them together over the years. Michael Phelps announces Death of His Father, Fred Phelps Skip ...
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".
Surviving America's Most Hated Family is a 2019 BBC documentary film presented and written by Louis Theroux.The programme follows as Theroux revisits the family at the core of the Westboro Baptist Church and observes how its members have changed since the 2014 death of the church's founder, Fred Phelps.
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 was ordained a Southern Baptist in 1947.
Nathan Phelps (born November 22, 1958) is an American-born Canadian author, LGBT rights activist, [1] and public speaker on the topics of religion and child abuse.He is the sixth-born of the 13 children of Fred Phelps, from whom he had been estranged since his 18th birthday in 1976 until his father's death in 2014. [2]
Fred Phelps and the members of Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church promised to picket the funeral, [36] but did not. [64] There were people there that picketed with signs, but friends wore angel wings to block the casket from the signs. She was cremated, and her mother Sylvia Guerrero retained the urn with her ashes. [19]
Snyder v. Phelps, 562 U.S. 443 (2011), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that speech made in a public place on a matter of public concern cannot be the basis of liability for a tort of emotional distress, even if the speech is viewed as offensive or outrageous.