• Monday, February 8, 2010 - 12:17pm By Simon Sheppard
    “Feces is dripping out of your fag mouth,” the nice middle-aged lady said to me. Yes folks, the Fred Phelps freak show had come to town. Members of the gay-bashing, Jew-hating Westboro Baptist Church—you know, the delightful folks who picket...
  • Sunday, December 27, 2009 - 4:49pm By Tim McElreavy
    Westboro Baptist Church has a new demon to picket: Lady Gaga. The Kansas-based ministry led by Fred Phelps issued a press release last week claiming that the singer is leading a "rebellion" against God. With great rhetorical fluorish, the press...
  • Monday, June 22, 2009 - 6:27pm By Tim McElreavy
    What would you do if a paranoid, unpatriotic, fag-hating contingent from the Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest on your doorstep? Sure, you'd roll your eyes and, perhaps, chuckle a bit, but seriously what would you do after that? When the...
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 10:01am By Chris Hall
    Well, Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church aren't dead (previous article), but they are getting increasingly desperate for attention. Seven members of the church showed up on Friday to protest Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland....
  • Friday, April 24, 2009 - 3:23pm By Chris Hall
    When you're a purist and refuse to take your religious crazy in anything other than the undiluted, economy-sized, straight-round-the-bend variety with "Made in America" stamped right on the front of the bottle in big red letters, you...