Cop-Bashing, Gay-Hating Westboro Church Begged Feds for Protection

M.L. Nestel

Fred Phelps, the world’s loathsome preacher, loved to talk smack about cops—until he needed them to keep him safe.

He was dubbed the “Hater-In-Chief” for creating one of the most reviled religious institutions in the world.

This week the FBI dumped almost 250 pages of damning documents on the late former Westboro Baptist Church preacher Fred Phelps, who died unceremoniously last year. Lifted from the ream are redacted bulletins painting the pastor from Meridian, Mississippi, as an anti-gay bigot with psychotic issues who landed on the feds’ radar back in 1967.

Most bizarre is that the zealot who brazenly attacked cops and homosexuals with near-equal vigor was two-faced. He routinely demanded protection from the same authorities he publicly shamed.

One of the many letters Rev. Fred Waldron Phelps writes asking for aid was recorded on Sept. 3, 1993. On this occasion, Phelps faxed to local authorities a 16-page handwritten screed filled with “terroristic threats” that he’d received by some disgruntled TV viewer who watched Phelps “debate with fags” on the Jane Whitney Show.

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