The Westboro Baptist Church is among the nastiest of the nutty, publicity-demanding evangelical churches that litter the American landscape. Its leader Fred Phelps makes Pastor Terry Jones seem positively calm, measured and rational. Phelps is deeply anti-Semitic, having in 1996 organized a picket of Washington’s Holocaust Memorial Museum claiming that Whatever righteous cause the Jewish victims of the 1930s–40s Nazi Holocaust had, (probably minuscule, compared to the Jewish Holocausts against Middle Passage Blacks, African Americans and Christians—including the bloody persecution of […]

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