Remember Andrew Craibe, the Aussie Salvation Army major who caused an uproar this summer when he said in a radio interview that gay people should be put to death?
Well, he’s now found a perhaps-unwelcome bedfellow: Westboro Baptist Church member Jonathan Phelps, who endorsed the death penalty for homosexuals in a just-released interview with progressive talk-show phenom David Pakman on the eponymously-named David Pakman Show.
The two men also discuss the literal application of Leviticus as it pertains to adultery, virginity, and diet, as well as marriage equality (which Phelps believes will “soon” be the law all across America). Phelps also didn’t deny that his infamous father, Fred Phelps, beat his children — himself included — but maintained that the way he and his siblings were treated was “the best treatment that any human child… would receive.”
Watch:
Frankly, I see little difference between the Westboro Klan and other anti-gay bigots – only the tone of their rhetoric is different, and not by much.
Wow do as I say not as I say you peasants
That is all
What a vicious and vile individual!! The earth will be a much better place when people such as himself have departed from it…
I doubt his God will be happy with the hatred and lack of compassion he has displayed.
Neil
Going back to the Dark Ages. He is an awful human being. He is just what we need (NOT).
Oh my GAWD! He looks like he’s carrying a few (more than a few) extra pounds. Refresh my memory..what does the Bible say about gluttony?
The Bible also states that people who work on the Sabbath should be put to death!! I am gay and sometimes have to work weekends…. I am so screwed!
The only thing I agree with Phelps on is that the presidential candidates aren’t that different. Other than that, he’s pretty g*****n crazy. We need more religious moderates and agnostics in this world.
All of this argument about bronze-aged rules and edicts developed by some Semitic goatherds millennia ago is so boring. How christianists (and other religionists) can spend hours nit-picking over the obscure and equivocal writings of people who believed in talking snakes and donkeys and Noah’s Ark is beyond fathoming. What a waste of time. Listening to the religious blatherings of members of the Westboro Klan is the ultimate waste of time.
It’s disgusting to see children being abused like that.
ps..talking snakes and donkeys are literary devices and metaphors and except for fundamentalists, no modern ‘religionists’ consider them to be factual as we understand that word today.
Gary: are talking snakes and donkeys and Noah’s Ark really “literary devices”? Is holding up a staff in the sky and having the sun stop in the air a literary device? Is having a million nomadic goatherds wandering on the Sinai Peninsula for 40 years a literary device? Is living to 969 years of age a literary device? Is feeding 5000 people with a few trout and a couple of loaves of bread a literary device? What about the water of the Nile turning to blood? Or turning water into wine? Or finding a coin in a fish’s mouth? Or hell, being swallowed by a big fish and vomited up on a beach intact 3 days later? The list could go on and on.
Modern religionists don’t consider them to be factual because they are patently absurd, but that is a relatively recent phenomenon. Modern religionists have had to continuously reinvent their beliefs to conform to the undeniable evidence of the natural world around us. Their assumptions, convolutions and contortions to try to make bronze-age writings and the accompanying 2 millennia of subsequent squabbling about them mean something are extremely boring to all but the uninitiated. That goes for fundagelical and liberal religionists alike.
I wish you could edit after the fact. My print is so small that I always seem to screw something up when I type.
nutter nutter fairy storys
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