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• GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH PROTTS KY. CLERK WHO DENIED SAME-SEX MARRIAG
• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• FRED PHELPS SR, EX-PASTOR OF GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH, 'CLOSE TO ATH'
• COP-BASHG, GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH BEGGED FEDS FOR PROTECTNGOD HAT COWARDSFRED PHELPS, THE WORLD’S LOATHSOME PREACHER, LOVED TO TALK SMACK ABOUT PS—UNTIL HE NEED THEM TO KEEP HIM SAFE.M.L. NTELUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:06PM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 26, 2015 5:22AM EST DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/AP PHOTOHE WAS DUBBED THE “HATER-IN-CHIEF” FOR CREATG ONE OF THE MOST REVILED RELIG STUTNS THE WORLD.THIS WEEK THE FBI DUMPED ALMOST 250 PAG OF DAMNG DOCUMENTS ON THE LATE FORMER WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH PREACHER FRED PHELPS, WHO DIED UNCEREMONLY LAST YEAR. LIFTED OM THE REAM ARE REDACTED BULLETS PATG THE PASTOR OM MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI, AS AN ANTI-GAY BIGOT WH PSYCHOTIC ISSU WHO LAND ON THE FEDS’ RADAR BACK 1967.MOST BIZARRE IS THAT THE ZEALOT WHO BRAZENLY ATTACKED PS AND HOMOSEXUALS WH NEAR-EQUAL VIGOR WAS TWO-FACED. HE ROUTELY MAND PROTECTN OM THE SAME THORI HE PUBLICLY SHAMED.ONE OF THE MANY LETTERS REV. FRED WALDRON PHELPS WR ASKG FOR AID WAS RERD ON SEPT. 3, 1993. ON THIS OCSN, PHELPS FAXED TO LOL THORI A 16-PAGE HANDWRTEN SCREED FILLED WH “TERRORISTIC THREATS” THAT HE’D RECEIVED BY SOME DISGNTLED TV VIEWER WHO WATCHED PHELPS “BATE WH FAGS” ON THE JANE WHNEY SHOW. THE LETTER STARTS OUT “DEAR FRED PHELPS, YOU ARE A SOB NAZI SOB NAZI BCH…IF I HAD A GUN I WOULD BLAST YOU AWAY.”IN THE FAX, PHELPS WR “SCE WE REGULARLY PICKET AGAST THE FAG THREAT TO OUR NATN TOPEKA, AND WILL PICKET AGA SOON… WE THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW.”A MONTH LATER, A SUBSEQUENT LETTER PENNED BY AN UNNAMED FBI AGENT STS BLAME ON PHELPS AND HIS NGREGATNS’ BATIVE ANTICS FOR TURNG THEMSELV TO TARGETS. (THE PHELPS- BURNED THE STARS AND STRIP AND RELIED THEIR SIGNAGE ON THEIR LIMED DICTNARY OF BUZZWORDS LIKE “SODOME,” “BCH,” AND “WHORE.”) THE AGENT WROTE, “IT WOULD APPEAR THAT MR. PHELPS IS TENTNALLY PROVOKG THE TYP OF RPONS.”THE FEDS ALSO SPECTED THEY WERE ALG WH A MENTAL SE, ACRDG TO A 1987 DOCUMENT THAT STATED: “[FRED] PHELPS WAS FELT BY OFFICE OF ORIG TO BE NEED OF PSYCHIATRIC RE AS A RULT OF PERSONS TERVIEWED CLAIMED PHELPS TO BE IRRATNAL.”HOWEVER BOG THE THREAT, THE AGENT ADD, “THE FBI DO HAVE THE RPONSIBILY TO VTIGATE AND PREVENT POTENTIAL VLENCE AGAST ANY PERSON REGARDLS OF THEIR RELIG POLIL VIEWS, HOWEVER.”IN PUBLIC, REV. PHELPS WASN’T THANKG HIS POLICE FOR KEEPG HIS FLOCK SAFE, BUT STEAD WEARG HIS CRIMSON WAR PAT. “I WAS OFTEN THE TARGET,” RETIRED POLICE CHIEF GERALD BEAVERS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST A PHONE LL OM HIS HOME. “HE WAS PROTTG AT HEADQUARTERS ALL THE TIME AND HE WAS YELLG THAT I WASN’T DOG MY JOB AND HE WAS SCREAMG AT THE OTHER [POLICE] OFFICERS.”OFFLE, PHELPS ALSO TRIED TO CREATE HIS OWN SURGENCY BY SENDG FAMG NOT TO VAR PUBLIC OFFICIALS. “THE FAX MACHE WAS HIS WEAPON OF CHOICE,” BEAVERS SAID. “AND HE SENT THOSE FAX TO EVERYBODY CY ERNMENT.” YET THE POLICE CHIEF SAID HE STILL PERFORMED HIS JOB AND PROTECTED THE CHURCH’S SALTY LEAR AND HIS FAHFUL WHEN THEY WENT OUT ON THE STREETS OF TOPEKA TO SRE CIVILIANS TO SUBMISSN. “WHENEVER THEY WERE OUT ON THE STREET WE HAD THEM UNR SURVEILLANCE, WE HAD A POLICE OFFICER THE AREA SE SOMEONE TRIED TO ATTACK THEM.”FRED PHELPS JR., 61, AND THE OLST OF THE 13 PHELPS KIDS, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT HIS FATHER HAD E TO BE UPSET. IN 1993, WHEN CHIEF BEAVERS WAS NNG THE PARTMENT, HIS CHURCH MEMBERS WERE SAVAGELY BEATEN BY “EX-NVICTS” HIRED BY A LOL TOPEKA RTRANT LLED VTAGE.VTAGE EMPLOYED A LBIAN STAFFER AND THIS DREW THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH TO THE SIWALK TO PROTT.PHELPS SAID THE TOPEKA POLICE KNEW ABOUT AND SAT THERE WATCHG HIS FAY AND LOVED ON GET PULVERIZED. “THEY KNEW THIS WAS GOG TO HAPPEN AND WAS ALL PRE-PLANNED,” PHELPS SAID. “THEY SAT THERE AND WATCHED .”ON THE GROUP’S WEBSE, , PHELPS SR. SAID THAT THE VTAGE RTRANT ASSLT WAS A BROAR ATTEMPT TO MUZZLE WTBORO. HE CHALKED UP TO A “A NSPIRACY BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE POLICE, MEDIA, CY ERNMENT, AND A CROOKED LAWYER/JUDGE/STRIP JOT OWNER/BLOODY JEW, AMERI SOUGHT TO SILENCE WBC BY BEATG HER MEMBERS BLOODY ON THE SIWALKS OUTSI THE VTAGE RTRANT TOPEKA.”PHELPS THEN CLAIMED THAT THE CINT ONLY VIGORATED HIS CSA. “EVERY DAY SCE (NOT MOST EVERY DAY, NOT EVERY DAY EXCEPT BAD WEATHER, NOT MOST DAYS, BUT EVERY DAY), WBC HAS STOOD ON THOSE SAME SIWALKS TO REMD YOU OF YOUR CRIM AND HATRED, AND THAT GOD WILL AVENGE OUR BLOOD, WHICH CRI TO HIM OM THAT GROUND (GEN 4:10).”AND HE WAS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WH. MULTIPLE FBI BULLETS SCRIBE PHELPS AS “KEENLY AWARE OF WHAT HIS RIGHTS AND LIMATNS ARE… HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS RRY A VIO MERA WH THEM TO FILM THOSE WHO ATTEMPT TO STOP THEM OM MONSTRATG.”WHEN CHIEF BEAVERS’S TENURE THE POLICE FORCE ME TO AN END 1996, HE REMEMBERS EXHALG BEE HE WAS DONE WH PHELPS. “I SURVIVED AND I WAS LIKE SAYG TO MYSELF WAS ONE OF THOSE THGS THAT AFTER I WAS OUT OF . [SIGH]. OKAY,” HE SAID.THREE YEARS LATER, A LOL HISPANIC MAN REACHED OUT TO THE THORI MANDG THEY DO SOMETHG TO PUT AN END TO THE WTBORO CHURCH AND WARNED THAT IF NOTHG HAPPENED HE WAS GOG TO GET 30 GANGSTERS KNOWN AS “LOS HOMBR” TO STORM THEIR POUND “AND TAKE RE OF THE PROBLEM” AND THAT THERE WOULD BE “ANOTHER WA.”AGA PHELPS WENT CRAWLG TO THE PS FOR VER.IN ONE LETTER ADDRSED TO THE NEW TOPEKA POLICE CHIEF AND MAYOR HARRY L. “BUTCH” FELKER ON MARCH 12, 1996, PHELPS PLEAD TO ACT.“YOU TWO GENTLEMAN, BY NOT ENFORCG THE LAW ON OUR BEHALF AND BY REFG TO GIVE POLICE PROTECTN, ARE ENURAGG MORE VLENT CRIM AGAST , CLUDG THE LATT MURR THREATS AGAST OUR CHURCH MEMBERS AND THEIR CHILDREN,” PHELPS WROTE.THE RANRO TONE CREASED. “NOTHG BUT A SLAVISH AND SERVILE PANRG TO IRRATNAL, LYNCH MOB HYSTERIA OF THE MDLS MASS, WHIPPED UP TO A FOAM AND A OTH BY A RABIDLY PRO-HOMOSEXUAL MEDIA, ACUNTS FOR YOUR WARDLY NDUCT HERE.” AND MULTIPLE TIM PHELPS VOKED THE WRATH OF GOD SHOULD ANY OF HIS CHURCH MEMBERS BE ATTACKED. “YOU ARE HEREWH FURTHER ADVISED IF HARM E TO ANY OF OUR PEOPLE—OUR LIV, LIMBS OR PROPERTY,” HE WROTE, “WE TEND TO HOLD EACH OF YOU PERSONALLY AND DIVIDUALLY RPONSIBLE, MORALLY AND LEGALLY.”LIKE MOST EVERY THREAT, NOTHG HAPPENED. IN FACT, TOPEKA’S GANG TASK FORCE SUPERVISOR TERMED THAT KANSAS DON’T HAVE A “‘LOS HOMBR” GANG’ AND “HE KNOWS OF NO HOMICIS ANIZED BY ANY HISPANIC GANG.”YET PHELPS NTUED TO GO TO THE THORI WHEN HE FELT THREATENED—AND NOT JT THE LOL PS. THE FBI HEARD OM HIM, AS WELL.THAT WAS THE SE WHEN A WOMAN EMAILED REV. PHELPS THAT SHE WAS GOG TO E HER AK-47 AND “POISONO GAS” ON HIM AFTER THE TWO FACED OFF AT A GAY PERSON’S FUNERAL SAN FRANCIS. EVENTUALLY, HIS CHURCH MEMBERS “WERE TAKEN AWAY BY POLICE A VAN FOR HIS SAFETY,” ACRDG TO AN FBI DOCUMENT.FRED PHELPS JR. SAYS THE GROUP NTU TO KEEP L OF MUNITNS WH THE POLICE “WHEREVER WE GO.”“WE HAVE A PRACTICE THAT WE FAHFULLY ADHERE TO WHICH IS WE NOTIFY LAW ENFORCEMENT BEFORE WE GO TO ANY MUNY,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “IT’S APPRECIATED BY VIRTUALLY ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT.”AND NECSARY, WHEN YOU’RE OUTNUMBERED EVERY TIME BY RILED-UP CROWDS. “PEOPLE THROW STUFF AT YOU AND SHOOT BB GUNS AT YOU AND THERE’S VLENT PEOPLE OUT THERE SO WE NOTIFY LAW ENFORCEMENT,” HE SAID. “WE CERTALY HAVE A BROAD RANGE OF EXPERIENCE WH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SOMETIM THEY DO A WONRFUL JOB AND SOMETIM THEY DON’T.”THE GROUP PED WH THEIR LIV DURG A RALLY DELAWARE WH THEIR BLACK “GOD HAT AMERI” T-SHIRTS AND SCURRIED TO A POLICE VAN BEFORE SOMEONE SHATTERED A WDOW. AND PHELPS NOTED THAT WTBORO HAS OVER A DOZEN LAWYER-NGREGANTS WHO ONLY REQUT PS FOLLOW THEIR SWORN OATH. “WE’RE NOT LOOKG FOR TROUBLE,” HE CLAIMED, “BUT WE’RE NOT GOG TO WALK TO A SUATN WHERE OUR EY ARE SHUT.”THAT SAID, OM THE FBI DOSSIER, TOPEKA SEEMS TO HAVE SERVED AS A PRIMER FOR TAKG HIS WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH PICKETG ON THE ROAD TO OTHER PLAC AROUND THE UNTRY TO PREACH THEIR POISON.“THEY GOT WORSE LATER ON,” BEAVERS TELLS .THE CHURCH MEMBERS TOOK THEIR PCHFORKS TO LARAMIE, WYOMG 2001 WHERE HOMOSEXUAL MATTHEW SHEPARD’S FUNERAL WAS TAKG PLACE. THEY WENT ON TO HUNDREDS OF CI, CLUDG SWEN, AND THEN DOUBLED DOWN ON FUNERAL CRASHG YEARS LATER BY GOG TO VAR FALLEN SOLDIERS’ FUNERALS.PHELPS JR. SAID AFTER HIS DAD DIED OF OLD AGE ON MARCH 19, 2014, HE WAS BURIED BUT THERE WASN’T A FUNERAL. “AS A CHURCH WE DON’T WORSHIP THE AD.” M.L. NTEL
• “WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?”

GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH PROTTS KY. CLERK WHO DENIED SAME-SEX MARRIAG

Wtboro Baptist — the Kansas church known for s vilently anti-gay agenda — has wad to the ntroversy over the Kentucky urt clerk who ref to issue same-sex marriage licens fiance of urt is takg aim at Kim Davis, who has gone to jail for refg to allow gay people to marry on the basis that would vlate her Christian beliefs. Wtboro, or WBC, is notor and wily srned for picketg funerals for service members of victims and mass shootgs to draw attentn to s "God Hat Fags" argument that God is punishg Ameri for acmodatg homosexualy.

On March 18, 2019, Stalker announced on a blog post he was gay. “But they shoved a handful of vers down my throat that pletely sexualize me as a gay person and put a p on what I n do.

That’s g many younger evangelils — gay and straight — to qutn the tegry of their church’s theology and the nsistency of s biblil terpretatn. “Most people know and love someone who’s openly gay, ” said Julie Rodgers, a Christian wrer, activist and lbian whose story is featured the new documentary on Netflix, “Pray Away.

TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON

In ntrast wh most male Prottant nomatns where LGBTQ members are routely ordaed and their marriag solemnized church (the Uned Methodist Church beg the exceptn), whe evangelil nomatns such as the Southern Baptist Conventn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, the Anglin Church North Ameri and dozens of others have risted offerg gay people equaly. That leads them to highlight a handful of passag that nmn gay sex.

A straight man, he lived for a while New York Cy where he met lots of mted gay Christians.

Jonathan Merrt, a senr lumnist at Relign News Service and a ntributg wrer for The Atlantic, who recently me out as gay, said he fore a gradual evolutn evangelil circl.

FRED PHELPS SR, EX-PASTOR OF GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH, 'CLOSE TO ATH'

The qutn is whether that will happen quickly enough for the people who are fed up wh the homophobia still tolerated evangelil circl. Ellt Rossomme, a 26-year-old gay man who had been attendg a nonnomatnal evangelil church while studyg for a graduate gree chemistry at the Universy of California, Berkeley, ma the break two years ago. (Some evangelil church have accepted the realy of same-sex attractn but require gays to be celibate if they are to serve learship posns.

COP-BASHG, GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH BEGGED FEDS FOR PROTECTNGOD HAT COWARDSFRED PHELPS, THE WORLD’S LOATHSOME PREACHER, LOVED TO TALK SMACK ABOUT PS—UNTIL HE NEED THEM TO KEEP HIM SAFE.M.L. NTELUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 3:06PM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 26, 2015 5:22AM EST DAVID ZALUBOWSKI/AP PHOTOHE WAS DUBBED THE “HATER-IN-CHIEF” FOR CREATG ONE OF THE MOST REVILED RELIG STUTNS THE WORLD.THIS WEEK THE FBI DUMPED ALMOST 250 PAG OF DAMNG DOCUMENTS ON THE LATE FORMER WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH PREACHER FRED PHELPS, WHO DIED UNCEREMONLY LAST YEAR. LIFTED OM THE REAM ARE REDACTED BULLETS PATG THE PASTOR OM MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI, AS AN ANTI-GAY BIGOT WH PSYCHOTIC ISSU WHO LAND ON THE FEDS’ RADAR BACK 1967.MOST BIZARRE IS THAT THE ZEALOT WHO BRAZENLY ATTACKED PS AND HOMOSEXUALS WH NEAR-EQUAL VIGOR WAS TWO-FACED. HE ROUTELY MAND PROTECTN OM THE SAME THORI HE PUBLICLY SHAMED.ONE OF THE MANY LETTERS REV. FRED WALDRON PHELPS WR ASKG FOR AID WAS RERD ON SEPT. 3, 1993. ON THIS OCSN, PHELPS FAXED TO LOL THORI A 16-PAGE HANDWRTEN SCREED FILLED WH “TERRORISTIC THREATS” THAT HE’D RECEIVED BY SOME DISGNTLED TV VIEWER WHO WATCHED PHELPS “BATE WH FAGS” ON THE JANE WHNEY SHOW. THE LETTER STARTS OUT “DEAR FRED PHELPS, YOU ARE A SOB NAZI SOB NAZI BCH…IF I HAD A GUN I WOULD BLAST YOU AWAY.”IN THE FAX, PHELPS WR “SCE WE REGULARLY PICKET AGAST THE FAG THREAT TO OUR NATN TOPEKA, AND WILL PICKET AGA SOON… WE THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW.”A MONTH LATER, A SUBSEQUENT LETTER PENNED BY AN UNNAMED FBI AGENT STS BLAME ON PHELPS AND HIS NGREGATNS’ BATIVE ANTICS FOR TURNG THEMSELV TO TARGETS. (THE PHELPS- BURNED THE STARS AND STRIP AND RELIED THEIR SIGNAGE ON THEIR LIMED DICTNARY OF BUZZWORDS LIKE “SODOME,” “BCH,” AND “WHORE.”) THE AGENT WROTE, “IT WOULD APPEAR THAT MR. PHELPS IS TENTNALLY PROVOKG THE TYP OF RPONS.”THE FEDS ALSO SPECTED THEY WERE ALG WH A MENTAL SE, ACRDG TO A 1987 DOCUMENT THAT STATED: “[FRED] PHELPS WAS FELT BY OFFICE OF ORIG TO BE NEED OF PSYCHIATRIC RE AS A RULT OF PERSONS TERVIEWED CLAIMED PHELPS TO BE IRRATNAL.”HOWEVER BOG THE THREAT, THE AGENT ADD, “THE FBI DO HAVE THE RPONSIBILY TO VTIGATE AND PREVENT POTENTIAL VLENCE AGAST ANY PERSON REGARDLS OF THEIR RELIG POLIL VIEWS, HOWEVER.”IN PUBLIC, REV. PHELPS WASN’T THANKG HIS POLICE FOR KEEPG HIS FLOCK SAFE, BUT STEAD WEARG HIS CRIMSON WAR PAT. “I WAS OFTEN THE TARGET,” RETIRED POLICE CHIEF GERALD BEAVERS TOLD THE DAILY BEAST A PHONE LL OM HIS HOME. “HE WAS PROTTG AT HEADQUARTERS ALL THE TIME AND HE WAS YELLG THAT I WASN’T DOG MY JOB AND HE WAS SCREAMG AT THE OTHER [POLICE] OFFICERS.”OFFLE, PHELPS ALSO TRIED TO CREATE HIS OWN SURGENCY BY SENDG FAMG NOT TO VAR PUBLIC OFFICIALS. “THE FAX MACHE WAS HIS WEAPON OF CHOICE,” BEAVERS SAID. “AND HE SENT THOSE FAX TO EVERYBODY CY ERNMENT.” YET THE POLICE CHIEF SAID HE STILL PERFORMED HIS JOB AND PROTECTED THE CHURCH’S SALTY LEAR AND HIS FAHFUL WHEN THEY WENT OUT ON THE STREETS OF TOPEKA TO SRE CIVILIANS TO SUBMISSN. “WHENEVER THEY WERE OUT ON THE STREET WE HAD THEM UNR SURVEILLANCE, WE HAD A POLICE OFFICER THE AREA SE SOMEONE TRIED TO ATTACK THEM.”FRED PHELPS JR., 61, AND THE OLST OF THE 13 PHELPS KIDS, TOLD THE DAILY BEAST THAT HIS FATHER HAD E TO BE UPSET. IN 1993, WHEN CHIEF BEAVERS WAS NNG THE PARTMENT, HIS CHURCH MEMBERS WERE SAVAGELY BEATEN BY “EX-NVICTS” HIRED BY A LOL TOPEKA RTRANT LLED VTAGE.VTAGE EMPLOYED A LBIAN STAFFER AND THIS DREW THE WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH TO THE SIWALK TO PROTT.PHELPS SAID THE TOPEKA POLICE KNEW ABOUT AND SAT THERE WATCHG HIS FAY AND LOVED ON GET PULVERIZED. “THEY KNEW THIS WAS GOG TO HAPPEN AND WAS ALL PRE-PLANNED,” PHELPS SAID. “THEY SAT THERE AND WATCHED .”ON THE GROUP’S WEBSE, , PHELPS SR. SAID THAT THE VTAGE RTRANT ASSLT WAS A BROAR ATTEMPT TO MUZZLE WTBORO. HE CHALKED UP TO A “A NSPIRACY BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE POLICE, MEDIA, CY ERNMENT, AND A CROOKED LAWYER/JUDGE/STRIP JOT OWNER/BLOODY JEW, AMERI SOUGHT TO SILENCE WBC BY BEATG HER MEMBERS BLOODY ON THE SIWALKS OUTSI THE VTAGE RTRANT TOPEKA.”PHELPS THEN CLAIMED THAT THE CINT ONLY VIGORATED HIS CSA. “EVERY DAY SCE (NOT MOST EVERY DAY, NOT EVERY DAY EXCEPT BAD WEATHER, NOT MOST DAYS, BUT EVERY DAY), WBC HAS STOOD ON THOSE SAME SIWALKS TO REMD YOU OF YOUR CRIM AND HATRED, AND THAT GOD WILL AVENGE OUR BLOOD, WHICH CRI TO HIM OM THAT GROUND (GEN 4:10).”AND HE WAS A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WH. MULTIPLE FBI BULLETS SCRIBE PHELPS AS “KEENLY AWARE OF WHAT HIS RIGHTS AND LIMATNS ARE… HE AND HIS FOLLOWERS RRY A VIO MERA WH THEM TO FILM THOSE WHO ATTEMPT TO STOP THEM OM MONSTRATG.”WHEN CHIEF BEAVERS’S TENURE THE POLICE FORCE ME TO AN END 1996, HE REMEMBERS EXHALG BEE HE WAS DONE WH PHELPS. “I SURVIVED AND I WAS LIKE SAYG TO MYSELF WAS ONE OF THOSE THGS THAT AFTER I WAS OUT OF . [SIGH]. OKAY,” HE SAID.THREE YEARS LATER, A LOL HISPANIC MAN REACHED OUT TO THE THORI MANDG THEY DO SOMETHG TO PUT AN END TO THE WTBORO CHURCH AND WARNED THAT IF NOTHG HAPPENED HE WAS GOG TO GET 30 GANGSTERS KNOWN AS “LOS HOMBR” TO STORM THEIR POUND “AND TAKE RE OF THE PROBLEM” AND THAT THERE WOULD BE “ANOTHER WA.”AGA PHELPS WENT CRAWLG TO THE PS FOR VER.IN ONE LETTER ADDRSED TO THE NEW TOPEKA POLICE CHIEF AND MAYOR HARRY L. “BUTCH” FELKER ON MARCH 12, 1996, PHELPS PLEAD TO ACT.“YOU TWO GENTLEMAN, BY NOT ENFORCG THE LAW ON OUR BEHALF AND BY REFG TO GIVE POLICE PROTECTN, ARE ENURAGG MORE VLENT CRIM AGAST , CLUDG THE LATT MURR THREATS AGAST OUR CHURCH MEMBERS AND THEIR CHILDREN,” PHELPS WROTE.THE RANRO TONE CREASED. “NOTHG BUT A SLAVISH AND SERVILE PANRG TO IRRATNAL, LYNCH MOB HYSTERIA OF THE MDLS MASS, WHIPPED UP TO A FOAM AND A OTH BY A RABIDLY PRO-HOMOSEXUAL MEDIA, ACUNTS FOR YOUR WARDLY NDUCT HERE.” AND MULTIPLE TIM PHELPS VOKED THE WRATH OF GOD SHOULD ANY OF HIS CHURCH MEMBERS BE ATTACKED. “YOU ARE HEREWH FURTHER ADVISED IF HARM E TO ANY OF OUR PEOPLE—OUR LIV, LIMBS OR PROPERTY,” HE WROTE, “WE TEND TO HOLD EACH OF YOU PERSONALLY AND DIVIDUALLY RPONSIBLE, MORALLY AND LEGALLY.”LIKE MOST EVERY THREAT, NOTHG HAPPENED. IN FACT, TOPEKA’S GANG TASK FORCE SUPERVISOR TERMED THAT KANSAS DON’T HAVE A “‘LOS HOMBR” GANG’ AND “HE KNOWS OF NO HOMICIS ANIZED BY ANY HISPANIC GANG.”YET PHELPS NTUED TO GO TO THE THORI WHEN HE FELT THREATENED—AND NOT JT THE LOL PS. THE FBI HEARD OM HIM, AS WELL.THAT WAS THE SE WHEN A WOMAN EMAILED REV. PHELPS THAT SHE WAS GOG TO E HER AK-47 AND “POISONO GAS” ON HIM AFTER THE TWO FACED OFF AT A GAY PERSON’S FUNERAL SAN FRANCIS. EVENTUALLY, HIS CHURCH MEMBERS “WERE TAKEN AWAY BY POLICE A VAN FOR HIS SAFETY,” ACRDG TO AN FBI DOCUMENT.FRED PHELPS JR. SAYS THE GROUP NTU TO KEEP L OF MUNITNS WH THE POLICE “WHEREVER WE GO.”“WE HAVE A PRACTICE THAT WE FAHFULLY ADHERE TO WHICH IS WE NOTIFY LAW ENFORCEMENT BEFORE WE GO TO ANY MUNY,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “IT’S APPRECIATED BY VIRTUALLY ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT.”AND NECSARY, WHEN YOU’RE OUTNUMBERED EVERY TIME BY RILED-UP CROWDS. “PEOPLE THROW STUFF AT YOU AND SHOOT BB GUNS AT YOU AND THERE’S VLENT PEOPLE OUT THERE SO WE NOTIFY LAW ENFORCEMENT,” HE SAID. “WE CERTALY HAVE A BROAD RANGE OF EXPERIENCE WH LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SOMETIM THEY DO A WONRFUL JOB AND SOMETIM THEY DON’T.”THE GROUP PED WH THEIR LIV DURG A RALLY DELAWARE WH THEIR BLACK “GOD HAT AMERI” T-SHIRTS AND SCURRIED TO A POLICE VAN BEFORE SOMEONE SHATTERED A WDOW. AND PHELPS NOTED THAT WTBORO HAS OVER A DOZEN LAWYER-NGREGANTS WHO ONLY REQUT PS FOLLOW THEIR SWORN OATH. “WE’RE NOT LOOKG FOR TROUBLE,” HE CLAIMED, “BUT WE’RE NOT GOG TO WALK TO A SUATN WHERE OUR EY ARE SHUT.”THAT SAID, OM THE FBI DOSSIER, TOPEKA SEEMS TO HAVE SERVED AS A PRIMER FOR TAKG HIS WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH PICKETG ON THE ROAD TO OTHER PLAC AROUND THE UNTRY TO PREACH THEIR POISON.“THEY GOT WORSE LATER ON,” BEAVERS TELLS .THE CHURCH MEMBERS TOOK THEIR PCHFORKS TO LARAMIE, WYOMG 2001 WHERE HOMOSEXUAL MATTHEW SHEPARD’S FUNERAL WAS TAKG PLACE. THEY WENT ON TO HUNDREDS OF CI, CLUDG SWEN, AND THEN DOUBLED DOWN ON FUNERAL CRASHG YEARS LATER BY GOG TO VAR FALLEN SOLDIERS’ FUNERALS.PHELPS JR. SAID AFTER HIS DAD DIED OF OLD AGE ON MARCH 19, 2014, HE WAS BURIED BUT THERE WASN’T A FUNERAL. “AS A CHURCH WE DON’T WORSHIP THE AD.” M.L. NTEL

RELATED: Julie Rodgers shar story of survivg ‘ex-gay’ mistri new book and Netflix documentary. A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head.

“WHY DO THE CHURCH HATE GAY PEOPLE?”

" Aw read several passag om the Bible and nmned homosexualy as a s.

At one pot, he told the ngregatn that gay people "are dangero to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophil. ""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said.

Aw told the room that he thks the "solutn for the homosexual 2022" is the ath penalty. Every sgle homosexual our untry should be charged wh a crime. The abomatn of homosexualy that they have, they should be nvicted a lawful trial.