We’re Not Alone: Anti-Gay Groups Also Target Jews
Anti-gay religious groups promote their intolerance of GLBT individuals and families, but a less prominent aspect of some such groups is antipathy toward certain religions, and even races and ethnicities.
Once example is the Westboro Baptist Church, based in Topeka, Kansas. Headed by the Rev. Fred Phelps, Westboro-which is made up mostly of Phelps’ extended family-has generated headlines for picketing the funerals of gay people as well as the funerals of fallen military servicemembers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Phelps clan claim that “God hates America” because this country does not, in their view, aggressively persecute its GLBT See
We’re Not Alone: Anti-Gay Groups Also Target Jews
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UK Permanently Bars US Homophobes Phelps, Savage
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The list includes two well known American gay opponents – Rev. Fred Phelps and talk-radio host Michael Savage.
Phelps is the founder of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church.
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