Fred Phelps has passed over "the edge of death"

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

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It looks like God Hates Fred.

Does this mean that God hates people similarly afflicted at the end of life?  Whatever else you think, please don't fall into Fred Phelps' error of thinking disease is always a sign of God's displeasure.  Besides, at the end of the day, God loves us all, even one such as Fred Phelps who has no doubt caused God much disappointment and who has done his best to be unlovable.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Why do we have two threads on Fred Phelps?

Because Mr. Phelps had an impact upon both U.S. events (largely by causing disgust and the passing of laws to limit where and when he and his followers could emit his virulent hate) and religion (since he claimed that was what motivated him.  If he were to be limited to one board, this is probably the best one, since few would agree his hate was religious.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Why do we have two threads on Fred Phelps?

Because Mr. Phelps had an impact upon both U.S. events (largely by causing disgust and the passing of laws to limit where and when he and his followers could emit his virulent hate) and religion (since he claimed that was what motivated him.  If he were to be limited to one board, this is probably the best one, since few would agree his hate was religious.

It was a rhetorical question.  

Because, as I already said, Fred Phelps was a very effective attention whore.

Then why has Fred Phelps never posted here?  Oh.  Right.  You said "effective" attention whore.  That explains it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I hope he likes really hot weather.

Under the Dantean conception of Hell, he'd be getting that.  Ironically, as a blasphemer, he'd end up in the inner ring of the seventh circle along with the usurers and the sodomites.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Did he actually get a above 40% in the Kansas senate primary in 1992?

How the hell did that happen?

He got 31% and won a couple of counties. Quite the bizarre/impressive/frightening showing especially considering that he was a Democrat.

A little over 30% is still ridiculous.  However, he likely got those votes the same way Alvin Greene won the South Carolina senate primary in 2010.  I doubt the Senate primary was a high priority for Democratic voters in 1992, since whoever won was going to lose to Bob Dole in November.

It also could be that some voters remembered the younger Phelps.  Before he went nutters over gays, he actually had a reputation as a civil rights lawyer fighting racial discrimination.