Jael Phelps, 20, a nursing student, stood outside the City Council chamber here on a recent night holding a sign with a photograph of the councilwoman whom she hopes to unseat, Tiffany Muller, placed on a dog's body. The caption, "Mutt Muller," alluded to her family's view of homosexuals.
Ms. Muller is the first openly gay officeholder in Kansas, Miss Phelps, a granddaughter of the Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., possibly the nation's most vitriolic protester against gays...
...Voters will choose among them and two lesser-known candidates for the seat on the ballot on Tuesday and decide whether to repeal an ordinance that prohibits the city from discriminating against gays in hiring. Ms. Muller sponsored the ordinance shortly after she was appointed to the Council in the fall...
...The battle has become as much as anything a debate over Mr. Phelps, whose incessant daily pickets and hate-filled faxes have plagued Topeka for 14 years, yet whose opposition to the antidiscrimination ordinance is shared by many residents of this church-laden, Republican-leaning city of 125,000.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/national/01topeka.htmlApparently Phelps will probably win, according to AOL's news on it.
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