Rev. Fred Phelps' Flock Says Fred Thompson "Sees Eye To Eye" With Them On Gays
By Logan Murphy Wednesday Oct 17, 2007 12:40pm
AP: (h/t Americablog)
Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church are urging Fred Thompson to support their stance on homosexuality — a position on which they say the Republican presidential candidate once "saw eye to eye" with them.
Thompson was hired for a mid-1980s legal case in Kansas on the recommendation of Margie Phelps, daughter of Westboro founder Fred Phelps.
The Topeka, Kan.-based church is now best known for protesting at soldiers' funerals, claiming their deaths are retribution for the nation's acceptance of homosexuality.
Thompson campaign spokeswoman Karen Hanretty on Wednesday dismissed the church as "a radical fringe group, looking to draw attention to themselves." Read more...
Now that's a dirty little secret, and one Freddie was probably hoping would stay buried.
Q: How can you tell when you are on the wrong side of an issue?
A: When Fred Phelps supports you.
Kiss of Death.
But without tongues?
Now that’s a dirty little secret, and one Freddie was probably hoping would stay buried.
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Around Halloween nothing stays buried.
Easter too, but I'm not counting that.
This is a dangerous form of Guilt by Association. I'm no fan of Thompson for christ sake don't put them on the same page as pathological psychopaths like Phelps.
This reeks of Fox News mentality.
At this point he needs whatever support he can get. Is he sure he wants to neglect these total assholes?
Seriously, he needs this group like he needs a heart attack.
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At least Hollywood Fred has locked up about ~120 votes. Congrats.
LEFT, I MEANT LEFT!!!
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And I'd honk my horn and give you a thumbs up.
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you must take caution on rainy wet pavement!! ... most of the time.
Many Republicans see eye to bellybutton with Fred Phelps about gays.
"Thompson, a former Tennessee senator, has said he favors a constitutional amendment that bars judges from legalizing
gay marriage but would leave the door open for state legislatures to act."
What a joke! He's in favor of States' Rights and supports them by not allowing the state to interpret their own Constitutions and how it may play in with the 14th amendment of the Federal Constitution? This guy is so painfully spineless.
Even chief right-wing sociopath Bill O'Reilly has disowned these kooks. Sucks to be you, Fred.
So Phelps and his little congregation sees eye to eye with Thompson...
Well 'thank God for that'...... Now they can all get together under that 'Big tent thing the repubs like to carp about... Yep, that big ol pathetic tent of rightwing bigoted war mongering lunacy..JD
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And don't you know YOU would be the one who would be in trouble. That's the kinda topsy turvy bullshit world we live in.
(I'd wait till you ran over em and put the moaning ones out of their misery with a ball-peen hammer)
Being eye to eye with Fred Phelps is SO gay
...Freddy's dead--his campaign at least. Fact is, it's a done deal--money talks, everyone else just walks.
Billary v. Rudy is what it was, is & will be.
Sorry to disappoint, but Big Al's not gonna run, although he may endorse Barack as a last FU to Clinton, Inc.
Wes Clark as Billary's VP & Mitt or an as yet unnamed neo-con as Rudy's VP.
I'll put it this way
I wouldn't want to be peeing
next to fred in the
men's room
heh...
Getting an endorsement from these guys is like getting involved in some heavy smootching with Typhoid Mary.
There is a great video called The Most Hated Family in America over on Google Video. Its an hour long but kind of worth it. These folks are like the Taliban except they seem like the family next door. They are really batshit insane.
andrew @ 17:
Rudy will win the GOP nom when the nation's Christian Coalition decides to withdraw its support and members from the party. And I expect the gates of hell to freeze before that happens.
"They will know we are Christian's by our love, by our Love"...
oops, scratch that.
"They will know we are Christian's by our hate, by our Hate".
Religion = Hate. Ignorance. Bigotry.
Tax all the churches and this country would be out of debt.
Build the wall of seperation between Church & State higher.
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Bad news for Frederick.
By the way, I'm sorry about Phelps, he definitely isn't supported by most of the state.
hdhdfg & the carpenter;
While I commend your ideas to rid the world of fleas... I'm inclined to let these 'fine god fearin patriots' live after their little 'accident.. Maybe 30 years in a wheel chair crippled with chronic pain might be just the lesson in humanity or at least humility they might really need... Probably a pipedream.... These types have such myopia that they'd probably argue with the dude at the pearly gates about who they let in if these types didn't think they measure.... All I know for sure is these freaks are in for the biggest of surprised when they take the big dirt nap..JD
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So what? thompsons spokesperson denounced this. Trying to make an 'issue' out of
this kind of stunt by Phelps just demeans our side of the issue. It's akin to trying to
trash a Democratic candidate by saying NAMBLA 'endorses' him/her. We would
call that bulls*** if a Freeper did that .... and we would be right. OK?
Whatever the Phelps clan has said recently about the soldiers, they believe more than just that "their deaths are retribution for the nation’s acceptance of homosexuality."
They believe that everyone is either (and this is Shirley Phelps' lingo, not mine) "a fag or a fag-enabler." Everyone, that is, except the Phelps and their followers. That's why they believe they are entitled to protest at soldiers funerals. God wants the soldiers to die, in the clan's view, because they are "fag enablers" if not gay themselves.
Lovely bunch of fucks. But this is what comes from reading the Bible like a manual for whatever moralistic bullshit one happens to believe.
joe @ 4:
If you have any doubt at all as to what Thompson was indoctrinated with I suggest you visit http://forum.preachersfiles.com/viewforum.php?f=11&sid=df19d5b5c3a1c60c6...
Look at some of the posts made by like minded people with his religious upbringing.
The Church of Christ is a heartless and soulless cult!
Fred Thompson is a joke of a presidential candidate, but I think his campaign's statement's take on Fred Phelp's cult's claims hits the nail on the head: Westboro Baptist is just trolling for publicity. What, exactly, do they claim Fred said or did 22 years ago in the course of representing a female sexual harassment plaintiff against a male supervisor that demonstrates that he "sees eye to eye" with Westboro on the treatment of gays and lesbians? Note the conspicuous lack of specificity in the claims.
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The Westboro Baptist Church, huh? That's a high-profile endorsement for sure. I sense that Frederick of Hollywood is gonna see his campaign surge from this point on.
It should be noted that regardless of psycho-Fred's penchant for protesting at funerals, he is entitled to legal representation, same as anyone else in America.
What is needed to cement the association would be court transcripts of any arguments made by Thompson, if he was, in fact, the attorney who took the case to trial.
Phelps is just trolling for publicity, but the fact remains that his views are just a slightly more extreme version of what many, many Republicans do believe.
it's worth noting that phelps was a gore supporter in '88, so maybe we shouldn't be so gleeful about this. i'm no fan of thompson, but i agree w/joe- we don't want to promote guilt by association.
We should be reminded that dear Fred is a member of camp Hollywood. The guy is surrounded by more gay people in his daily routines than Larry Craig in a public bathroom at 2 in the morning.
[Penguin, JPM doesn’t mind you trolling at work on their IP? I thought I’d let you know, we’re starting a collection of your witticisms to send to their abuse department. Enjoy the chat with your supervisor-Sitemonitor]
Stands to reason that Tennessee Freddy would be connected to the inbred Baptist meth-makers constituency of the reactionary right. These Skoal abusers are his base.
If "God Hates Fags," why'd he invent the Arts?
All Cons see eye to eye with Phelps.
Either Phelps is clinicaly delusional or he's planning to screw Thompson the way he screwed Al Gore.
Wonder how many of his brainwashed followers in his sick, biggoted and hatefilled church are hiding in the closet like the many other Reslugs in Washington now??
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh @ 40:
Where's the salt?
lol, Phelps endorsing anyone is a kiss of death for a win with the mainstream. HAHAHAH, thompson
Fred Thompson, the choice of freepers. The choice of Fred Phelps. Good luck trying to swim with those bricks tied around your ankles.
joe @ 34:
So?
Professor Farnsworth @ 44:
I think Joe ment we should remind Republicans.
Fred Thompson must have had some kind of plastic surgery that went wrong. It's unnatural to be that ugly.
Everyone knows Thompson is gay.
Phelps is crazier by the way day.
Does 'thanking God for Dead Soldiers' mean they support the troops?
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Well I'm glad to see ol Fred get some endorsments.
Lazy, ugly and stupid is no way to go through life Fred.
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i don't know. seems to work ok for fred. young wife place keeping job. mega bucks tv actor.
he is really suffering.
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while i love to see froody mcromney fail for whatever reason...i'm with CD at #39. seems he's setting out to kill fred's chances but why fred and not rude-ee? course if phelps endorsed rude no one would buy that for a minute. phelps really is delusional but like a fox with rabies, he's crazy but clever, what's the trick?
Fred Phelps and his family are pulling our collective leg. They are theater. They are art. They satirize the religious right in such an effective way, even convincing most of us that they are the real thing.
They apparently don't like Fred Thompson. Neither do I. Leave them alone. Let them perform.
Stephen Colbert/Fred Phelps in '08
kaT @ 46:
The doctor sewed a pus-soaked sponge to his face.
Fred left his first wife but doesn't want gays to get married for a first time. Double standards always on the march at the red pickup truck rental counter
I feel so sorry for those Phelps children. They're being brainwashed, and will grow up with major issues-- very unbalanced. That much hatred is not natural inside any living being. I shudder to think of the damage being done to their souls.
I may be no fan of Fred Thompson, but as an attorney, I think it is to late to judge a man by whom he respresents as an attorney. As an attorney, you usually take what comes in the door and pays or what is thrown your way. It doesn't mean you believe in the cause or in the person you are representing. It's a job. Nothing more most of the time. Now, Fred Thompson may have believed in their cause, but one cannot ascertain that from representation alone.
What bothers me is that this blog occasionally uses the same tactics as the right wing in order to smear everything Republican. However, there is plenty of good, solid information to smear the right wing without having to stoop to their tactics.
"Thank God for Dead Soldier's" ...At least we know too much time in the Ivory Tower isn't what got them out of touch with reality.
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