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Pastor Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. was excommunicated from the Westboro Baptist Church after advocating a kinder approach between church members.
The excommunication occurred after the formation of a board of male elders in the church. The board had defeated Shirley Phelps-Roper, the churchs longtime spokeswoman, in a power struggle, and Fred Phelps Sr. called for kinder treatment of fellow church members.
The board then ejected Fred Phelps Sr., who founded the church in the 1950s.
The power struggle and excommunication was revealed by Nate Phelps, a son of Fred Phelps who broke away from the church 37 years ago, during an interview with a Topeka Capital-Journal reporter.
http://cjonline.com/news/2014-03-17/elders-excommunicate-phelps-after-power-struggle-call-kindness-within-church
Nice knowing that vile Shirley Phelps-Roper will be irrelevant even to these hateful wingnuts. WBC will wither up and disappear within a year.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Fred Phelps was excommunicated from his church because he wasn't sufficiently hateful.
Please, just stop this ride and let me off. Thanks.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)How much more mad did they need him to be?
Warpy
(111,332 posts)he might have had cause to begin his repentance. The rest of them wouldn't like that, at all, the old man was getting "soft." Besides, they had a fortune in lawsuits winnings hidden in that church's bank accounts that was worth defending against a repentant old man.
I'm glad they bounced Shirley sooner rather than later. I see they've read their Paul epistles about them uppity wimmen. She was the most virulent of all of them, a true bug eyed zealot.
It will be interesting to see if that church goes sane or if it breaks apart into several smaller, more insane churches.
wercal
(1,370 posts)And Margie Phelps now considers him a whore:
My dad Pastor Fred Phelps is a hell bound f*g enabling whore,
#Westboro Baptist Church to protest this whores Funeral
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Posted in LBN by Adenoid_Hynkel:
Fred Phelps' Funeral Will Not Happen, According To Westboro Baptist Church Member
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014757868
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)What are they doing that's so complex?
amb123
(1,581 posts)A hatemonger devoured by the very hate he created. Beautiful!
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I once heard of a Phelps sighting on lower Polk St. in SF, which is the second- or third-gayest street in the world, behind Castro and possibly Folsom. Margaret Cho's parents' bookstore was in Polk Gulch.
And I hate to ask, but was Ms. Phelps homeschooled? Those tweets certainly read like those of someone who was taught by .
wercal
(1,370 posts)...but reading further, I think this is a spoof page.
FreeState
(10,577 posts)Here is the real account: https://twitter.com/WBCMargie
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)The Phelps gave a hateful group of people voice and brought them to life, now they have gotten the bite.