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Fred Waldron Phelps was born on November 13, 1929, in Meridian, Mississippi, the elder of two children of Catherine Idalette (née Johnston) and Fred Wade Phelps. His father was a railroad policeman for the Columbus and Greenville Railway and a devout Methodist ; his mother was a homemaker.
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]
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".
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Jeffs was convicted in a Texas state court of child sex charges and sentenced to life plus 20 years. He is incarcerated at the Powledge state prison. He also awaits trial in other states and in the federal court system. [8] Jung Myung Seok - South Korean religious sect leader and founder of Providence. Convicted for raping several of his ...
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]
In 2012, investigators seemingly brought long-awaited closure to one of the nation's oldest and most high-profile kidnapping cases, solving it after more than 50 years.
Smith was booked on two counts of alleged child abuse and neglect, simple possession and unlawful drug paraphernalia, according to The Leaf-Chronicle. Jail or Agency: Montgomery County Jail; State: Tennessee; Date arrested or booked: 4/11/2016; Date of death: 4/11/2016; Age at death: 31; Sources: www.theleafchronicle.com