Westboro Baptist Church :
Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an independent Baptist church, known for his extreme stance against gay sexuality , and protest activities, including picketing at the funeral, and desecrate the American flag. The church has been widely described in the group of hat and will be monitored as such the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. E 'directed by Fred Phelps, and consists mainly of members of his large family, In 2007 it was 71 members. The headquarters of the church is located in a residential area west of Topeka is about three miles west of Kansas State Capitol 3701 West 12th Street, Topeka, Kansas, USA. His first public service was held on the afternoon of Sunday, November 27, 1955.
The church has been actively involved in the anti-gay, at least since 1991 when he attempted an attack on homosexual activity in the park six blocks northwest of the church Gage. In addition to anti-gay protests at military organization picketing the funerals celebrity funerals second chance of getting media attention.
WBC does not involve any known Baptist conventions or associations. The church is as follows Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles, The main Primitive Baptists rejected the WBC and Phelps.
Contents [hide]
A protest activities
1.1 Anti-gay pickets
1.2 funeral pickets
1.3 protest against Jewish institutions
1.4 Other protest activities
Church 2 views
2.1 Purpose of protests and religious ceremonies
2.2 Perspectives on gay sexuality
2.3 Perspectives on religions
2.4 The views on race and ethnicity
2.5 Views on Barack Obama
3 Replies
3.1 laws restricting funeral protests
3.2 If the Supreme Court
3.3 Other legal responses
3.4 banned from the United Kingdom
3.5 Counter-demonstrations
3.6 The violence and criminal acts committed by opponents
3.7Patriot Guard Riders
3.8 Parodies
3.9 The critical
4 Documentary in the media
5 Financing
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Protest Activities :
Phelps and the fence of her family about six points on a daily basis, including many in Topeka, and some of the events further. On Sunday, he asked to get up to 15 poles. their own number, the WBC has made more than 30,000 poles, all 50 states, more than 500 locations.
The group carries out daily picketing in Topeka (presumably six percent of the 02: Sunday 00 days), and travels nationally to picket the funeral of gay murder victims, homophobia, or people who have died from complications AIDS-related, peripherally related or other events related to gay, Kansas City Chiefs football, and live pop concerts. Since March 2009, the church claims more than 41,000 have participated in the protests of more than 650 cities since 1991. One of the followers of the Westboro church estimated that the $ 250,000 spent years picketing.
Stakes have led to several lawsuits. In 1995, the eldest grandson Phelps Sr. 's, Benjamin Phelps, was convicted of assault and disorderly conduct after spitting in the face of passers-by during the contest. In 1990, the church has won several lawsuits against the city of Topeka and Shawnee County's efforts to prevent or hinder WBC picketing, and received about $ 200,000 and attorneys' fees and costs of litigation. In 2004, Margie Phelps and her son Jacob were arrested for illegal stay, disorderly conduct and failure to comply, after ignoring police orders during the attempted protest. In response to picketing funerals, Kansas passed a law banning picketing at such events. In the fall of 2007, the father of Marine whose funeral was picketed by the WBC was $ 5,000,000 in damages.
However, the price was later overturned on appeal by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in Snyder v. Phelps. In June 2007, Shirley Phelps-Roper was arrested in Nebraska on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The arrest resulted from it for his eight-year-old son to walk on the American flag at the event, which is illegal under the law of Nebraska. The defense argues that the child's actions were protected speech and that the state law is unconstitutional. The prosecution alleged that the demonstration was not to political discourse, but as an incitement to violence, and that the behavior of Phelps-Roper may also constitute an abuse of children. Prosecutors later dropped the charges against Phelps-Roper.
Twice, the church has approved a radio program in exchange for withdrawal of protest informed.
Anti-gay Pickets :
As a documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux filmed, have staked the hardware store that sold vacuum cleaners Sweden, where the church should support gay because of the process Swedish Ake Green, pastor of the criticism of gay sexuality.
The church has the threat of pickets or picketing of the production of the play The Laramie Project, based in the murder of Matthew Shepard, whose funeral also protested.
On January 25, 2004, Phelps picket five churches (Catholic and Episcopal three two) and the federal courthouse in what he said was his role in legitimizing same-sex marriages in Iowa community's response was the realization of demonstrations against one-and multi-faith service at the Municipal Auditorium .
On January 15, 2006, members of Westboro protested the memorial to victims of disaster at Sago Mine in 2006 stating that the mining accident was God's revenge against America for its tolerance of homosexuality
Funeral Pickets :
The group came to national attention in 1998 when he was featured on CNN for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young man from Wyoming who was beaten to death by two men because of their homosexuality. [28] Since then, the church has drawn attention to the provisions game much more real and serious.
In July 2005, the Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket the memorial service for Carrie French in Boise, Idaho. French, 19, was killed June 5 in Kirkuk, Iraq, where she served as an ammunition specialist with the 116th Brigade Combat Team 145th Support Battalion. Phelps Sr. was quoted as saying, "Our attitude toward what is happening with the war [that] the Lord punishes the bad for this nation to abandon all moral imperatives that are worth a penny."
In 2006, Westboro fence with banners saying "God hates fags" and "Thank God for dead soldiers" in Westminster, Maryland, the funeral of Matthew Snyder, U.S. Marine was killed in Iraq. resolves a lawsuit filed by the later, Snyder's father, Albert Snyder, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the Westboro activities constituted protected free speech.
2. February 2008, the group picket the funeral of former LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley in Salt Lake City, Utah, showing picket signs criticizing him for "lying false prophet" and "leading millions of people astray." The organization also criticized the excessive Hinckley approval of gay men, accusing him of slurred speech gay sexuality, rather than taking a strong stance against it. The police had difficulty if the presentation was met with instructions to ensure the freedom of expression.
Westboro picketed the funeral of Michael Jackson after his death June 25, 2009. [Citation needed] The members of Westboro also recorded a song called "God Hates the World", an adaptation of Jackson's charity single "We Are the World".
In 2010, Westboro picket the funeral of heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio .
In January 2011, announced Westboro picket the funeral of Christina Green, 9 years, a victim in 2011 Tucson shooting. In response to the Arizona legislature passed a law to prohibit an urgent protests within 300 feet funeral, residents of Tucson and plans to protect the protesters funeral. the church canceled plans to hold a protest during a memorial service at the University of Arizona in exchange for air time on talk radio shows. According to officials, between 700 and 1,200 university students gathered to fight the WBC four protesters who appeared on campus after the event.
6. October 2011, Fred Phelps 'daughter, Margie, has announced via his Twitter account that the church would be picketing the Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs' funeral. Tweet, calling Steve Jobs, the lack of religious faith, ironically, came from Margie Phelps "the iPhone.
Protests Against Jewish Institutions :
In 1996, Phelps led the protest at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, stating:
Regardless of the cause the Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust 40 1930, (probably minimal compared to the Jewish holocaust in the Middle Passage and blacks, Americans, Africans and Christians, including the bloody persecution of Westboro Baptist Church by Topeka Jews in 1990), drowned in a sodomite semen. American taxpayers finance this unholy monument to Jewish lies and greed and lust for dirt FAG. Homosexuals and Jews dominated Nazi Germany ... The Jews now wander the despised, struck by the moral and spiritual blindness by a divine judicial stroke ... And God hit the Jews, a certain unique madness ... The Jews so perverse, out of all proportion to their numbers energize the militant sodomite agenda ... The Jews are the real Nazis.
WBC was present at delivery of 2002 Memorial of the Holocaust in Topeka, proclaiming "God hates
On May 8, 2009, protesting against the church members on three Jewish sites in Washington, DC, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of business on US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the largest synagogue in the city . Margie Phelps, daughter of Pastor Fred Phelps, led the protest and hold signs as "God hates Israel," "Jews killed Jesus," "America is doomed", "Israel is doomed" and "Jewish ADL Bullies ". The event was apparently part of a series of events to come, which the Church has scheduled on Jewish institutions in Omaha, St. Louis, South Florida and Providence. The group had written a list of locations upcoming events and dates, with the statement "Jews killed the Lord Jesus."
In an interview, Margie Phelps said his church was targeted at the American Jewish community, because there were church members, "said" to the Gentiles for 19 years, "America is doomed to failure" and that "it's too late . We've finished with them. " Phelps also said Jews were "one of the loudest voices" in favor of homosexuality and abortion, and that "[the Jews] claim to be God's chosen people. Do you think God winked at that time?" Concluded Phelps said, in an apparent reference to Revelation, which all nations of the world was about to Israel in March, and took it President Barack Obama, calling him "the Antichrist."
Other Protest Activities :
On January 26, 2008, raised WBC in Jacksonville, North Carolina, home of Camp Lejeune to protest against the United States Marine Corps in the wake of the murder of Maria Lauterbach. Five women protested against the trampling the American flag and chanted slogans like "1,2,3,4, God hates Marine Corps." A group of over-40 against demonstrators arrived and they spat in the face of Shirley Phelps-Roper. against a second-demonstration took place across the city, which attracted over 150 counterprotesters.
May 14, 2008, two days after the devastating earthquake in Sichuan in 2008, WBC has issued a statement thanking God for the loss of lives in China, and to pray "for earthquakes kill many thousands more insolent and ungrateful Chinese ".
On May 29, 2011, the WBC to protest in Joplin, Missouri, the funeral for the victims of the tornado May 22, 2011, which destroyed much of the city . Those who plan to protest against the church or Obama's speech has been there, or both, were denied entry to the room with hundreds of local residents and regional , including a large motorcycle group Patriot Guard Riders .
On May 30, 2011, WBC was present at the service of Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Day as part of their "Thank God for dead soldiers" of the campaign. A protest against included members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Church Views :
Westboro Baptist Church believes that the majority of belonging to religious groups, such as the Roman Catholic Church or Islam, as a reminder to the worship of the devil, and notes that these other churches as "a satanic deception Arminia preaching lies." All non-Christian communities, non-Protestant Christian churches, all Protestant Christian churches that condemn gay sexuality is told to send their members to Hell.
Order Of Events And Church Activities :
In the BBC documentary, the most hated family in America, questioned the filmmaker Louis Theroux Shirley Phelps-Roper, had it found that the technique of Westboro protests were more likely to "put people out of the word of Jesus Christ and the Bible. "
In response to Phelps-Roper said that the purpose of the protest: "I do not think our job is to win souls to Christ. Everything we do, to get their faces and put these signs in front of him, and These words, is to make what is already in his heart to come out of your mouth. "
Later in the document, Phelps-Roper has agreed that $ 200.000 of the Church celebrates each year to beat the funeral protest was to distribute the money, "the wrath of God
WBC described the Roman Catholic Church as "the largest and most well funded and organized a group of pedophiles in the history of mankind" and continues to say that "There are over 1 billion Catholics in the world, there is one in six people alive today and all of them will split hell wide open when they die, period. And there is nothing they can do about it. "
Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an independent Baptist church, known for his extreme stance against gay sexuality , and protest activities, including picketing at the funeral, and desecrate the American flag. The church has been widely described in the group of hat and will be monitored as such the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. E 'directed by Fred Phelps, and consists mainly of members of his large family, In 2007 it was 71 members. The headquarters of the church is located in a residential area west of Topeka is about three miles west of Kansas State Capitol 3701 West 12th Street, Topeka, Kansas, USA. His first public service was held on the afternoon of Sunday, November 27, 1955.
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WBC does not involve any known Baptist conventions or associations. The church is as follows Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles, The main Primitive Baptists rejected the WBC and Phelps.
Contents [hide]
A protest activities
1.1 Anti-gay pickets
1.2 funeral pickets
1.3 protest against Jewish institutions
1.4 Other protest activities
Church 2 views
2.1 Purpose of protests and religious ceremonies
2.2 Perspectives on gay sexuality
2.3 Perspectives on religions
2.4 The views on race and ethnicity
2.5 Views on Barack Obama
3 Replies
3.1 laws restricting funeral protests
3.2 If the Supreme Court
3.3 Other legal responses
3.4 banned from the United Kingdom
3.5 Counter-demonstrations
3.6 The violence and criminal acts committed by opponents
3.7Patriot Guard Riders
3.8 Parodies
3.9 The critical
4 Documentary in the media
5 Financing
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Protest Activities :
Phelps and the fence of her family about six points on a daily basis, including many in Topeka, and some of the events further. On Sunday, he asked to get up to 15 poles. their own number, the WBC has made more than 30,000 poles, all 50 states, more than 500 locations.
The group carries out daily picketing in Topeka (presumably six percent of the 02: Sunday 00 days), and travels nationally to picket the funeral of gay murder victims, homophobia, or people who have died from complications AIDS-related, peripherally related or other events related to gay, Kansas City Chiefs football, and live pop concerts. Since March 2009, the church claims more than 41,000 have participated in the protests of more than 650 cities since 1991. One of the followers of the Westboro church estimated that the $ 250,000 spent years picketing.
Stakes have led to several lawsuits. In 1995, the eldest grandson Phelps Sr. 's, Benjamin Phelps, was convicted of assault and disorderly conduct after spitting in the face of passers-by during the contest. In 1990, the church has won several lawsuits against the city of Topeka and Shawnee County's efforts to prevent or hinder WBC picketing, and received about $ 200,000 and attorneys' fees and costs of litigation. In 2004, Margie Phelps and her son Jacob were arrested for illegal stay, disorderly conduct and failure to comply, after ignoring police orders during the attempted protest. In response to picketing funerals, Kansas passed a law banning picketing at such events. In the fall of 2007, the father of Marine whose funeral was picketed by the WBC was $ 5,000,000 in damages.
However, the price was later overturned on appeal by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in a decision upheld by the Supreme Court in Snyder v. Phelps. In June 2007, Shirley Phelps-Roper was arrested in Nebraska on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The arrest resulted from it for his eight-year-old son to walk on the American flag at the event, which is illegal under the law of Nebraska. The defense argues that the child's actions were protected speech and that the state law is unconstitutional. The prosecution alleged that the demonstration was not to political discourse, but as an incitement to violence, and that the behavior of Phelps-Roper may also constitute an abuse of children. Prosecutors later dropped the charges against Phelps-Roper.
Twice, the church has approved a radio program in exchange for withdrawal of protest informed.
Anti-gay Pickets :
As a documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux filmed, have staked the hardware store that sold vacuum cleaners Sweden, where the church should support gay because of the process Swedish Ake Green, pastor of the criticism of gay sexuality.
The church has the threat of pickets or picketing of the production of the play The Laramie Project, based in the murder of Matthew Shepard, whose funeral also protested.
On January 25, 2004, Phelps picket five churches (Catholic and Episcopal three two) and the federal courthouse in what he said was his role in legitimizing same-sex marriages in Iowa community's response was the realization of demonstrations against one-and multi-faith service at the Municipal Auditorium .
On January 15, 2006, members of Westboro protested the memorial to victims of disaster at Sago Mine in 2006 stating that the mining accident was God's revenge against America for its tolerance of homosexuality
The group came to national attention in 1998 when he was featured on CNN for picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young man from Wyoming who was beaten to death by two men because of their homosexuality. [28] Since then, the church has drawn attention to the provisions game much more real and serious.
In July 2005, the Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket the memorial service for Carrie French in Boise, Idaho. French, 19, was killed June 5 in Kirkuk, Iraq, where she served as an ammunition specialist with the 116th Brigade Combat Team 145th Support Battalion. Phelps Sr. was quoted as saying, "Our attitude toward what is happening with the war [that] the Lord punishes the bad for this nation to abandon all moral imperatives that are worth a penny."
In 2006, Westboro fence with banners saying "God hates fags" and "Thank God for dead soldiers" in Westminster, Maryland, the funeral of Matthew Snyder, U.S. Marine was killed in Iraq. resolves a lawsuit filed by the later, Snyder's father, Albert Snyder, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the Westboro activities constituted protected free speech.
2. February 2008, the group picket the funeral of former LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley in Salt Lake City, Utah, showing picket signs criticizing him for "lying false prophet" and "leading millions of people astray." The organization also criticized the excessive Hinckley approval of gay men, accusing him of slurred speech gay sexuality, rather than taking a strong stance against it. The police had difficulty if the presentation was met with instructions to ensure the freedom of expression.
Westboro picketed the funeral of Michael Jackson after his death June 25, 2009. [Citation needed] The members of Westboro also recorded a song called "God Hates the World", an adaptation of Jackson's charity single "We Are the World".
In 2010, Westboro picket the funeral of heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio .
In January 2011, announced Westboro picket the funeral of Christina Green, 9 years, a victim in 2011 Tucson shooting. In response to the Arizona legislature passed a law to prohibit an urgent protests within 300 feet funeral, residents of Tucson and plans to protect the protesters funeral. the church canceled plans to hold a protest during a memorial service at the University of Arizona in exchange for air time on talk radio shows. According to officials, between 700 and 1,200 university students gathered to fight the WBC four protesters who appeared on campus after the event.
6. October 2011, Fred Phelps 'daughter, Margie, has announced via his Twitter account that the church would be picketing the Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs' funeral. Tweet, calling Steve Jobs, the lack of religious faith, ironically, came from Margie Phelps "the iPhone.
In 1996, Phelps led the protest at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, stating:
Regardless of the cause the Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust 40 1930, (probably minimal compared to the Jewish holocaust in the Middle Passage and blacks, Americans, Africans and Christians, including the bloody persecution of Westboro Baptist Church by Topeka Jews in 1990), drowned in a sodomite semen. American taxpayers finance this unholy monument to Jewish lies and greed and lust for dirt FAG. Homosexuals and Jews dominated Nazi Germany ... The Jews now wander the despised, struck by the moral and spiritual blindness by a divine judicial stroke ... And God hit the Jews, a certain unique madness ... The Jews so perverse, out of all proportion to their numbers energize the militant sodomite agenda ... The Jews are the real Nazis.
WBC was present at delivery of 2002 Memorial of the Holocaust in Topeka, proclaiming "God hates
On May 8, 2009, protesting against the church members on three Jewish sites in Washington, DC, including the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of business on US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the largest synagogue in the city . Margie Phelps, daughter of Pastor Fred Phelps, led the protest and hold signs as "God hates Israel," "Jews killed Jesus," "America is doomed", "Israel is doomed" and "Jewish ADL Bullies ". The event was apparently part of a series of events to come, which the Church has scheduled on Jewish institutions in Omaha, St. Louis, South Florida and Providence. The group had written a list of locations upcoming events and dates, with the statement "Jews killed the Lord Jesus."
In an interview, Margie Phelps said his church was targeted at the American Jewish community, because there were church members, "said" to the Gentiles for 19 years, "America is doomed to failure" and that "it's too late . We've finished with them. " Phelps also said Jews were "one of the loudest voices" in favor of homosexuality and abortion, and that "[the Jews] claim to be God's chosen people. Do you think God winked at that time?" Concluded Phelps said, in an apparent reference to Revelation, which all nations of the world was about to Israel in March, and took it President Barack Obama, calling him "the Antichrist."
On January 26, 2008, raised WBC in Jacksonville, North Carolina, home of Camp Lejeune to protest against the United States Marine Corps in the wake of the murder of Maria Lauterbach. Five women protested against the trampling the American flag and chanted slogans like "1,2,3,4, God hates Marine Corps." A group of over-40 against demonstrators arrived and they spat in the face of Shirley Phelps-Roper. against a second-demonstration took place across the city, which attracted over 150 counterprotesters.
May 14, 2008, two days after the devastating earthquake in Sichuan in 2008, WBC has issued a statement thanking God for the loss of lives in China, and to pray "for earthquakes kill many thousands more insolent and ungrateful Chinese ".
On May 29, 2011, the WBC to protest in Joplin, Missouri, the funeral for the victims of the tornado May 22, 2011, which destroyed much of the city . Those who plan to protest against the church or Obama's speech has been there, or both, were denied entry to the room with hundreds of local residents and regional , including a large motorcycle group Patriot Guard Riders .
On May 30, 2011, WBC was present at the service of Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Day as part of their "Thank God for dead soldiers" of the campaign. A protest against included members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Church Views :
Westboro Baptist Church believes that the majority of belonging to religious groups, such as the Roman Catholic Church or Islam, as a reminder to the worship of the devil, and notes that these other churches as "a satanic deception Arminia preaching lies." All non-Christian communities, non-Protestant Christian churches, all Protestant Christian churches that condemn gay sexuality is told to send their members to Hell.
In the BBC documentary, the most hated family in America, questioned the filmmaker Louis Theroux Shirley Phelps-Roper, had it found that the technique of Westboro protests were more likely to "put people out of the word of Jesus Christ and the Bible. "
In response to Phelps-Roper said that the purpose of the protest: "I do not think our job is to win souls to Christ. Everything we do, to get their faces and put these signs in front of him, and These words, is to make what is already in his heart to come out of your mouth. "
Later in the document, Phelps-Roper has agreed that $ 200.000 of the Church celebrates each year to beat the funeral protest was to distribute the money, "the wrath of GodViews On Religion :
Catholicism :
Westboro Baptist refers to Catholic priests as "vampires" and "Dracula", and talks of Catholic priests sucking semen out of the genitalia of male children as a vampire sucking the blood of their victims. In addition, WBC called Pope Benedict XVI, epithets like "the godfather of pedophiles" and "Pervert Pope." April 2008, the WBC protest Pope Benedict XVI during the papal visit to New York.
WBC has launched a website called Priests Rape Boys, where they criticized the Roman Catholic Church because of the scandal of sexual abuse Catholic, said: "Whenever a person gives money to the Catholic Church, the person pays the salary of pedophile rapists.
WBC described the Roman Catholic Church as "the largest and most well funded and organized a group of pedophiles in the history of mankind" and continues to say that "There are over 1 billion Catholics in the world, there is one in six people alive today and all of them will split hell wide open when they die, period. And there is nothing they can do about it. "Also critical of Catholicism The WBC, as does Eastern Orthodoxy, to venerate the Virgin Mary, saints, relics and icons, accusing the Catholic Church have committed idolatry.
Islam :
In response to a Newsweek article alleging that American soldiers flushed copies of the Koran in the toilet at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Fred Phelps released this statement:
So what if our guys flushed copies of the Koran in the toilet? We hope you did. Probably not, and hopefully throw more. Muhammad was a demon-possessed pedophile who knew how shameless and a work of 300 pages of Satanic fiction: The Quran! As U.S. brazen and pedophiles themselves wangle his own book of Mormon cheesy!
As the war in Iraq, a CMB brochure says "in his fury vengeful God is killing Americans with Muslim IEDs:" Touch not my anointed and do my prophets no harm "1 Chronicles 4: 10:00 p.m...
Hinduism :
God Hates WBC maintains a site in India, where they claim that "80% of the population of India claims to be practicing Hinduism ..." A land full of idolatry inevitably leads to a nation full of gays and FAG catalysts because it is what happens when you are off of the living God "
WBC then urges Hindus to convert to Christianity, saying ". If you want to stop the worship of false gods, a cigarette is not a complicated Stop prostitute after other gods and begin to serve the living God in truth! "
Views On Race And Ethnicity :
Founder Fred Phelps is a veteran of the civil rights movement in the 1960s , and the church has tried to distance themselves from racism.
Disapproval of the Church of the use of physical violence from groups like the neo-Nazis and KKK are listed on the site. FAQ's Page, "we do not believe in physical violence of any kind, and Scripture does not support racism. ... The only true Nazis in this world are gay."
The Church has already condemned the various countries, including Italy, which he described as a nation of "farming evil gangster"
Views On Barack Obama :
Westboro Baptist Church believes that Barack Obama is the Antichrist, and that he or she forms an unholy trinity of Satan, and Pope Benedict XVI, who they believe is a false prophet.
Margie Phelps, daughter of Pastor Fred Phelps and the WBC's lawyer, said in an interview with Fox News that Obama is "absolutely" go to hell, and is "very likely the beast spoken of in Revelation." She also said that Obama's presidency is a sign of the Apocalypse.
