Be forewarned, this rant was written at around 3 or 4 in the morning, so if bits and pieces are a bit off-track, well…tough shit.

By now, you’re probably not only aware of the “Westboro Baptist Church,” but you also probably hate them…to an extreme. Well, I have some bad news for you. That’s what they want, and you’re giving it to them, day after day. See, WBC is not really a church. The members of it’s “congregation” don’t really believe the things they say. They just know how to push your buttons, regardless of who you are, and they’re so good at it, they can make a profit doing it. See, what you probably don’t understand is, Fred Phelps, and the group surrounding him, are not insane religious whackjobs. Phelps, along with 11 of his 13 children, are lawyers (though Phelps himself is now disbarred), four of which currently run Phelp’s 46 year old Civil Rights law firm. The Phelps-Chartered Firm was actually one of the most tenacious firms at fighting against Kansas’ archaic Jim Crow laws, actually earning him an award from the NAACP in the 80s, shortly before his disbarment.

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