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Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. (November 13, 1929 - March 19, 2014) was an American disbarred lawyer who was the pastor of Westboro Baptist Church and the man behind two websites defaming the LGBTQ community as sinful and Americans as evil. [?] He was infamous for his views on homosexuality and protests near the funerals of LGBT people, military veterans, and disaster victims who he believed were killed as a result of God punishing the world for allowing LGBTQ. He was convicted in 1994 for verbal harassments and served 30 days in jail as a result. [1] In 2009 he was barred from entry into the United Kingdom as an individual "fostering hatred that may lead to inter-community violence". Fred died in his sleep in 2014 at the age of 84. [2] At the time he was experiencing dementia and was said to have softened in his latter years, enough so that following a 2013 incident in which he stepped out of the church to tell a group of painters (part of Painting Peace) who had just finished painting a rainbow flag on a near by home that they where good people. This was said to have lead to his excommunication from the Westboro Baptist Church. While he was indeed excommunicated in an interview with NPR his granddaughter denied that this incident was the cause of his excommunication. Regardless it was one example of how he had changed in his elderhood.
Category Clarification[]
- Convicts [1]
Source Citations[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Musser, Rick; excerpt from his 1999 book 'Culture Wars & Local Politics' ; "In-Depth: Fred Phelps" - archived by wayback machine
- ↑ "Anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps dies" a BBC article published 2014 March 10.