Fringe Religious Group or Scary Group of Nut-bags…You Be The Judge.

Scary Facts about Westboro.

1.  Phelps does not permit Westboro members to marry persons outside the church.
2. As relatively few individuals have joined Westboro, there have been at least two marriages between the Phelps and Hockenbarger clans, resulting in some members having dual genealogical relationships (ex. married the brother or sister of their father or mother).
3. The Westboro facility is organized around the edges of a secured compound, surrounded by ten homes organized in a block.
4. Inside the compound are U.S. and Canadian flags that fly non-stop (and are lit up at night), in an upside down position.
5. Qutoe from a sermon “The hell with your flag. The hell with your fag army, your fag courts, your fag-run government”.
6. Quote from a sermon “This is the hypocritical, fag-infested, fag-run United States of America and we’re supposed to respect that fag rag flag?”
7. The FAQ section of the website states that, in their view, soldiers didn’t join the military out of a sense of patriotism, but because they are “lazy, incompetent idiots” unable to find work elsewhere.
8. On January 15, 2006, Westboro members protested the memorial of 2006 Sago Mine disaster victims claiming that the mining accident was God’s revenge against America for its tolerance of homosexuality.
9. In the wake of the tragic Amish school house shooting, members of Westboro Baptist Church planned on picketing the funerals of the five girls killed in the shooting. Their signs were going to call the girls “whores” and that they are “burning in hell”.
10. In February of 2007, the WBC threatened to picket the funeral of ten Bardstown, Kentucky family members who died in a fire as well as a similar one in Tennessee where four children died in a fire.
11. On the day of the April 16, 2007 campus massacre on the Virginia Tech campus, the church declared its intent to protest the funerals of the students killed

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