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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 06:03 PM Mar 2014

WBC excommunicated Fred Phelps after daughter lost power struggle with male elders



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 church’s 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.
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WBC excommunicated Fred Phelps after daughter lost power struggle with male elders (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Mar 2014 OP
Irony meter pegged. LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #1
Wow shenmue Mar 2014 #2
As he felt the chill of the Grim Reaper's hand on his shoulder Warpy Mar 2014 #7
News is that WBC will picket....Fred's Funeral wercal Mar 2014 #3
There may not be a funeral pinboy3niner Mar 2014 #6
Buck buck BRAWWWK! KamaAina Mar 2014 #10
A church with, what, 50 members requires a governing board? nyquil_man Mar 2014 #4
Sweet Justice! amb123 Mar 2014 #5
Justice, sweet pure justice. nt bluestate10 Mar 2014 #14
Not according to the daughter: christx30 Mar 2014 #8
I probably believe that. LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #9
I can believe it KamaAina Mar 2014 #11
I looked at this feed, and even posted one of the tweets... wercal Mar 2014 #13
Thats a parody account FreeState Mar 2014 #15
Brings to mind the proverb about helping a freezing viper. bluestate10 Mar 2014 #12

LiberalAndProud

(12,799 posts)
1. Irony meter pegged.
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 06:07 PM
Mar 2014

Fred Phelps was excommunicated from his church because he wasn't sufficiently hateful.

Please, just stop this ride and let me off. Thanks.

Warpy

(111,332 posts)
7. As he felt the chill of the Grim Reaper's hand on his shoulder
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 06:15 PM
Mar 2014

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)
3. News is that WBC will picket....Fred's Funeral
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 06:10 PM
Mar 2014

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)
6. There may not be a funeral
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 06:15 PM
Mar 2014

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)
11. I can believe it
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 06:26 PM
Mar 2014

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)
13. I looked at this feed, and even posted one of the tweets...
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 06:27 PM
Mar 2014

...but reading further, I think this is a spoof page.

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
12. Brings to mind the proverb about helping a freezing viper.
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 06:27 PM
Mar 2014

The Phelps gave a hateful group of people voice and brought them to life, now they have gotten the bite.

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