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Freedom of religion.

If you beat the living shit out of your kids and you're not religious, you go to jail. If you beat the living shit out of your kids and you say the Bible made you do it, then you're just expressing your beliefs. Hell, there are more than a dozen states which have EXPLICIT exemptions from their child-abuse laws for religious people, so that Jehovah's Witnesses won't go to jail for refusing medical treatments for their kids and thus causing them to die through what would normally be classified as parental negligence/abuse.
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The good Reverend Phelps(I feel icky even saying that sarcasticly), has been reported , but like many abusers no one will press charges and for thoes who would, the statute of limitations has run out...

The existence and continued existence of Fred Phelps is one of my corner stone arguments for why I've moved from agnostic to athiest in the last few years. Any God who would allow such a monster to speak in his name is obviously eiether a) absent and uncaring b) dosen't exist in the first place and c) is undeservant of my belief and devotion.

Now if Fred phelps were to be smote in some amazing display of devine retribution and punisment, which were so damn common thousands of years ago, then I might change my mind :o But as it is hes free to spew violence and hatered, abuse children and terrorize an entire community without impasse.....
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Where Dante would place Phelps
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I've just read the article. All I can say - I've NEVER been so pissed off in my life. Not once. Not even when I was robbed.

This man does NOT deserve to live.
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i vote we give the good Reverend Phelps a spinal tap of this stuff: http://www.kingsnake.com/toxinology/mam ... typus.html read the article this stuff is close to perfect for the purposes of torture :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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Actually, Phelps is not a Rev.- he was defrocked by the Southern Baptist Church.

When you are denounced by Falwell and defrocked by the SBC, it is a clear indication that you are REALLY fucked up.
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That man needs to be sodomized with a baseball bat wrapped in sandpaper driven by a sledgehammer.

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HemlockGrey wrote:Actually, Phelps is not a Rev.- he was defrocked by the Southern Baptist Church.

When you are denounced by Falwell and defrocked by the SBC, it is a clear indication that you are REALLY fucked up.
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Yeah, right. Can you imagine the furor arising from a president trying to make a law restrictring religious freedom? It does not matter how correct or moral it is, it would be distorted and mis-reported to the point where you look like Hitler. It will never happen, or else it would have already happened.
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Reading the articles, I've learned that Phelps is a lair and a child abuser, along with a bigot. He should have been jailed before he could have twelve kids. Then, there might not have been as much pain inflicted. I really can't describe my feelings toward this.
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I couldn't finish the article...it was too horrible to go on...
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..... the moment i read that Jerry Falwell thought he crossed the line, I knew this Phelps must be bad.

After the article...... I say we shatter this man both physically and metally, so that all that is left is a withered husk of a man and the pale shadow of a mind. Nothing short of that will do.
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Oh my God, me and Falwell agree on something.
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Interesting.

According to Phelps, God struck down the Columbia.

According to the Iraqis, Allah struck down the Columbia.

According to NASA, a malfunction struck down the Columbia.

I propose one method of settling this dispute. Phelps gets holy water, a cross, and a copy of the King James Bible.

The Islamic fundies of the world may pick one of their own to represent them. He gets boxcutters, an AK-47 and a copy of the Quran.

NASA may select one of their own to represent the instiution. He gets a spacesuit and the ability to call down satillite weaponry. Winner is whoever walks out alive.
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KILL THE MOTHER FUCKING ASSHOLE!!!
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