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Magneto
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21 Mar 2014, 11:05 am

I kinda feel bad for him. I don't think he had any friends.

Much like I feel sorry for Kim Jong-un.

It still doesn't excuse the things that they do, but do remember that no-one is truly evil - or truly good.



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21 Mar 2014, 11:30 am

Dear Magneto,

Your post is remarkably compassionate and insightful.

If you are really only nineteen years old, how is it that people twice and three times your age have not gotten to your level of spirituality and humanity?

Too bad Mr. Phelps could not have sat down and talked to you...

That is, IF he would have listened.


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21 Mar 2014, 1:36 pm

That pansy's family isn't giving him a funeral. Go figure. They know what would happen.



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21 Mar 2014, 4:38 pm

Lots of people outside carrying signs:

God hates bigoted preachers

Warm enough for yah?

Honk if you're gay!

The Village People were right!

and of course, lots of these:

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21 Mar 2014, 5:25 pm

Good Riddance!



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21 Mar 2014, 6:14 pm

On reflection, I feel surprisingly little enthusiasm for dancing on the man's grave, finding him more sad than anything else.


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21 Mar 2014, 10:03 pm

Was there anyone that he did like besides himself.



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22 Mar 2014, 5:17 am

Did not seem to be.


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22 Mar 2014, 5:19 pm

Aprilviolets wrote:
Was there anyone that he did like besides himself.


He liked God enough to make everything he did his mission.



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24 Mar 2014, 8:24 am

THANK GOD. *joke intended*



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24 Mar 2014, 9:38 am

His son said this about his father's passing:

“Fred Phelps is now the past. The present and the future are for the living. Unfortunately, Fred’s ideas have not died with him, but live on, not just among the members of Westboro Baptist Church, but among the many communities and small minds that refuse to recognize the equality and humanity of our brothers and sisters on this small planet we share. I will mourn his passing, not for the man he was, but for the man he could have been. I deeply mourn the grief and pain felt by my family members denied their right to visit him in his final days. They deserved the right to finally have closure to decades of rejection, and that was stolen from them.

Even more, I mourn the ongoing injustices against the LGBT community, the unfortunate target of his 23 year campaign of hate. His life impacted many outside the walls of the WBC compound, uniting us across all spectrums of orientation and belief as we realized our strength lies in our commonalities, and not our differences. How many times have communities risen up together in a united wall against the harassment of my family? Differences have been set aside for that cause, tremendous and loving joint efforts mobilized within hours…and because of that, I ask this of everyone – let his death mean something. Let every mention of his name and of his church be a constant reminder of the tremendous good we are all capable of doing in our communities.

The lessons of my father were not unique to him, nor will this be the last we hear of his words, which are echoed from pulpits as close as other churches in Topeka, Kansas, where WBC headquarters remain, and as far away as Uganda. Let’s end the support of hateful and divisive teachings describing the LGBT community as “less than,” “sinful,” or “abnormal.” Embrace the LGBT community as our equals, our true brothers and sisters, by promoting equal rights for everyone, without exception. My father was a man of action, and I implore us all to embrace that small portion of his faulty legacy by doing the same.”


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24 Mar 2014, 9:53 am

Geez, it almost sounds as though his son was trying to be a halfway decent person.



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24 Mar 2014, 9:59 am

micfranklin wrote:
Geez, it almost sounds as though his son was trying to be a halfway decent person.

I know, right?


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24 Mar 2014, 5:04 pm

ScrewyWabbit wrote:
That pansy's family isn't giving him a funeral. Go figure. They know what would happen.


Actually no, apparently they excommunicated him from his own church, which if you don't know primarily consists of his own family. --For what reasons they excommunicated him I'm unclear of, but I'd like to think that it was due to him having a change of heart on what is apparently the only sole purpose of his church.


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25 Mar 2014, 4:42 am

I thought that he chose to leave that church.


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25 Mar 2014, 6:34 am

He was excommunicated for advocating kindness to members OF the church.


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