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My late grandfather, Fred Phelps, was the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church. The church is made up of about seventy people, and 90 percent of them are members of my immediate or extended family.
Besides reflecting on the Westboro Baptist Church and its views, Phelps-Roper reminisces about her relationship with her mother, father, and 10 siblings — several of whom had earlier left the ...
Megan Phelps-Roper wasn’t content to just walk away the Westboro Baptist Church — reviled across the globe for its inflammatory hate speech against gays and dead soldiers. Now, seven years ...
Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Reddit HQ, Host Reddit AMA to Talk About It Twitter Suspends Anonymous’s Most Popular Account, @YourAnonNews (Update: It’s Back) ...
The controversial Westboro Baptist Church, based in Kansas, claimed that Hawaii will be “utterly destroyed” on Sunday. File Photo by Bettina Nørgaard/Pixabay 26,727 people played the daily ...
Anonymous is filing a petition against Westboro’s tax-exempt status. Because of its status as a religious entity, the Westboro Baptist Church is able to avoid paying taxes.
See About archive blog posts. Westboro Baptist Church — the small Kansas congregation that has gained notoriety for protesting at the funerals of U.S. soldiers — has a new target: Steve Jobs.
The Westboro Baptist Church also has protested at the funerals of Steve Jobs, Elizabeth Edwards and the victims of the Arizona shooting that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
When the family of Marine Lance Cpl. Terry E. Honeycutt Jr. arrived for his funeral at a church in Charles County on Monday, thousands of flag-waving supporters were there to greet them. Hopefully ...
Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., is famous for testing the boundaries of free speech. Brandishing signs that proclaim most Americans will burn in Hell, that God hates homosexuals and that ...