Libby Phelps, granddaughter of the late Fred Phelps Senior who was the figurehead of the Westboro Baptist Church (infamous for picketing funerals and their slogan ‘God Hates Fags’), has posed for the NOH8 campaign. Libby Phelps left the church in 2009. Earlier this year she gave an interview condemning the church and its practices. “They […]
Another member of the Westboro Baptist Church, infamous for picketing the funerals of soldiers and their signs bearing the slogan ‘God Hates Fags’, has left the church. Zach Phelps-Roper, grandson of the recently deceased Fred Phelps Senior and son of Shirley Phelps-Roper, one of the church’s most outspoken members, has renounced the church and its […]
The Westboro Baptist Church, the Kansas group infamous for picketing funerals and bearing signs reading the slogan ‘God Hates Fags’, has announced the death of its founding member, Fred Phelps Senior. Phelps’ estranged son Nathan wrote a Facebook post revealing that he was ‘close to death’, and expressed anger that his family had blocked those […]
Fred Phelps Senior, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, the controversial group known for picketing soldiers funerals and their slogan ‘God Hates Fags’, is reportedly dying. His son Nathan Phelps, who left the group on 1976 and now promotes LGBT rights in Canada, wrote a Facebook post revealing that his father is ‘on the edge […]
