[Sudden Valley]

What I don't get is how the families in the church seem to hold down jobs and actually have a good standard of living.
They have beliefs that seem more extreme than the more reclusive Christian cults you hear about in America.

[adox]

Originally Posted by ArmaniJeanss

Even if you've decided to dedicate your life to Gods work, it seems somewhat bizarre to concentrate so much on 'the fags' and fornicators. Like what about the drug importers, child traffickers, murderers, thieves etc?

At least the trafficing of cigarettes would be covered in their slogans.

[JONJO THE MISER]

It's very interesting because Fred Phelps was a leading civil rights lawyer in Kansas in the 1960's.

[ScumLord]

Originally Posted by Sudden Valley

What I don't get is how the families in the church seem to hold down jobs and actually have a good standard of living.
They have beliefs that seem more extreme than the more reclusive Christian cults you hear about in America.

I wouldn't be surprised if they more or less live off the media getting paid for interviews.

[youngblood]

Considering gun crime is riff in the states, how come none of these people have been shot or killed??

Also didnt they mention they burnt the Koran at one stage??

How come the fundamentalists didnt launch an attack on them over this???

[Jelle1880]

The daughter that left would get it

I love Louis' documentaries, the one with the Nazi's and in South Africa were eye-openers.

Anyone else loved their Lady Gaga remix ?
What I found amusing as well was when the two girls came out, Louis seemed to know right away what they were up to in the room, being all sweaty and that, and when he started to ask questions the mom jumped in to bail them out

[WalterMitty]

what was point of revisiting these people?

[clikityclak]

Repeat is on now BBCNI...only got the final 10 minutes last night, should be a good watch.

[mikom]

Testament to the catchiness of Lady Ga Ga

[Mezcita]

Originally Posted by youngblood

Considering gun crime is riff in the states, how come none of these people have been shot or killed??

Also didnt they mention they burnt the Koran at one stage??

How come the fundamentalists didnt launch an attack on them over this???

I was thinking the exact same thing. Not to condone violence on them but if they started picketing at soldiers funerals over here they wouldn't last long.

Also surprised at the Koran burning thing. That's like a waving a red flag in front of a bull.

[Aisling(",)]

I wonder how long it will take for them to collapse in on themselves.
The staunch members seem to be the older ones and there is a lot of them leaving the church once they reach a certain age.

I wonder if the girls that have left have changed their views radically,like would they still be homophobic and whatnot.

[df1985]

the one that left seemed to go in the complete other direction, looked like a hooker almost......may be making up for lost time!!

[liah]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ph...ights_attorney

Phelps also sued then-President Ronald Reagan over Reagan's appointment of a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, alleging this violated separation of church and state.

Some very interesting stuff on that wiki. What a strange, strange man. Defending black people and separation of church and state while condemning fags and soldiers to hell. Does not compute.

[Dennis the Stone]

Originally Posted by liah

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ph...ights_attorney



Some very interesting stuff on that wiki. What a strange, strange man. Defending black people and separation of church and state while condemning fags and soldiers to hell. Does not compute.

Must be his hatred of Catholics that motivated him there.

[Sir Digby Chicken Caesar]

Democratic Party

Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times, but has never won. These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15 percent of the vote in 1998.[32] In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31 percent of the vote.[33] Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993[34][unreliable source?] and 1997.[35]

Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election.[36] In his 1984 Senate race, Gore opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm

hah!
****ing republicans