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Davich: Pride Fest invites Region residents to show their true colors this weekend
31 May 2024 12:51 GMT
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The Rev. Fred Phelps was the former lead pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka … across America. The church’s trademark protest signs screamed “God Hates (Slur … "homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching". The move follows …
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Growing Up Racist: How Young White Supremacists Are Taught to Hate
30 May 2024 12:24 GMT
… daughters of Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, a group … same show as the Westboro Baptist Church. They had risen to … was because of their religious conviction, which he didn … right alongside kids from Westboro who were backstage with …
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6 Westboro extremists showed up to cheer the death of a teen. Hundreds chased them away.
07 Mar 2024 21:03 GMT
… protest. Photo: Screenshot
Until the Westboro Baptist church imploded a few years ago … from view.
The church’s motto was “God hates f*gs;” … down U.S. flags.
Founder Fred Phelps was removed as pastor and … that his devotion to his god ends this way. Destroyed by …
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Remedial Work: What God Loves and Hates
24 Jan 2024 00:14 GMT
… banner headline of the late Fred Phelps, “GOD HATES FAGS,” I have felt … I think there are Christians confused about what God hates and loves … years as various groups of Christians have opposed gay marriage while … in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
1 …
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Disaffiliating: When leaving religion means leaving your entire life behind
15 Dec 2023 13:27 GMT
… up, I disaffiliated from church culture and belief entirely. … fact, a bunch of Fred Phelps’ grandchildren eventually flew the … still attending their former “church home.” That happens … especially as its dominant religion, Christianity, continues to decline in …
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Controversial church's wild theory Hawaii will be 'utterly destroyed' on Sunday
09 Aug 2023 17:56 GMT
… pride – every behaviour God called abominable and swore would … in Hawaii (Picture: Westboro Baptist Church)
The church is known for … Washington Post)Westboro was founded by pastor Fred Phelps in 1955 … Baptist denomination and many members of the Christian …
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Westboro Baptist Church pickets in Shoshone County
20 Jun 2023 09:19 GMT
… Shoshone County.
Members of Westboro Baptist Church rallied outside the Kellogg … there from the Lord God.”
Those words included signs … of the late Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps and has been … active with the church since …
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Podcast features J.K. Rowling and former Westboro Church member Megan Phelps-Roper
22 Feb 2023 23:53 GMT
… Westboro Baptist Church, which consists mostly of extended members of the family of Fred Phelps … bearing messages that include "God Hates Fags" while conducting … , and advocates; historians, reporters, authors; Christians who boycotted Potter in the …
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Megan Phelps-Roper: The Westboro Baptist Church escapee who is interviewing JK Rowling
20 Feb 2023 17:23 GMT
… the extremist Westboro Baptist Church, led by Phelps-Roper’s grandfather Fred Phelps.
The … Muslims, LGBTQ+ people, and numerous Christian denominations. Their theology and practises … been rejected almost universally by Christian churches.
Phelps-Roper exited …
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'The Klansman's Son' becomes antiracist: How R. Derek Black unlearned a white nationalist upbringing
08 May 2024 18:22 GMT
… two daughters of Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, a group … , the kids of the Westboro family, and I could … two daughters of Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, a group … , the kids of the Westboro family, and I could …