American Baptist minister heading to "hunt down" King of Sweden

[Bluebear]

The fanatical American Baptist minister, Fred Phelps, is on his way to Sweden. "We'll hunt down your king," he said ominously to Expressen. "It doesn't make any difference where he tries to hide."

Phelps' hatred of the royal family and all things Swedish is linked directly to his equally virulent hatred of homosexuals. He praises homophobic crimes, including murder. When controversial Swedish minister, Åke Green, was convicted of inciting hatred of homosexuals following an anti-gay sermon, Phelps saw red and turned his attention to Sweden.

"You're doomed to spend eternity in hell," he continued. "All you Swedes and your Swedish king and his family."

The minister and twenty members of his congregation from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, are planning to come to Sweden at the beginning of September. They are bringing plenty of placards in order to spread their message that Sweden is the cradle of all evil and that the king rules a nation of sodomites. King Carl Gustaf is their primary target. "Your king represents your doomed country and we'll find him wherever he may be."

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=1961&date=20050825&PHPSESSID=3b666fd2de63750b8c53b1883a6928be
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Phelps' site calls Sweden "a land of sodomy, bestiality, and incest", and goes on to say: "The King looks like an anal-copulator, & his grinning kids look slutty & gay."

Under pictures of the royals, the site says: "You jackass Swedes just don't get it. Once you have laws to chill Bible preaching, we don't give a rat's tutu whatever else you do or say. You are drippings from the Devil's own penis - a veritable sperm bank for Satan's queers."

The site and its content have infuriated Swedes who have a close bond with their royal family.

The government has expressed its concern to the US Ambassador. And, the royals have consulted their lawyers.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/08/082305sweden.htm

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. GO PHELPS!!!

And take Robertson and Falwell with you!

[Bluebear]

What a thing to wish on Sweden!

:)

I have more in mind some primitive cannabistic culture.

[Ladyhawk]

8. Naw, Sweden would know how to deal with these fuckwads.

Unfortunately, the US doesn't seem to get it.

[Bluebear]

9. Good pernt. n/t

[Richard Steele]

10. My DREAM headline: "Phelps Missing in Sweden; Search Parties Unlikely"

This batshit-smoking, wife-beating closet case
ain't crazy enough to actually GO to Sweden!
They have a real Government that follows LAWS there!
He and his followers would spend the rest of their days
in the world's most luxurious padded cells!

Fred Phelps' LUNATIC RANTINGS are actually a deliberate
cover-up for his REAL insanity.

He's CRAZY, but he's not as stupid as he pretends to be.
He's a guy who transformed his repressed homosexuality into HATE,
then focused on his hate until it became an ADDICTION.

And his overbearing personality turned his kids and a few supporters
into a CULT who hide from the world and marry only other cult members.

Y'all should read his Wiki-Bio, it is REALLY worth 5 min of your time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev._Fred_Phelps

[Ganja Ninja]

21. I think the headline will more likely be:

"American Preacher under psychiatric evaluation in Sweden"
or
"Fred Phelps led from a Swedish airport in straight jacket"

[TWiley]

37. I sent some premium coal to Blast Furnace 13 in HELL

just in case they all show up.

[Journeyman]

2. Somehow, I couldn't find it within myself to insult a monarch. . .

then travel to his kingdom.

My Momma raised me to be many things, but stupid wasn't one of 'em.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

3. What a donkey .

And how exactly does he know how an anal-copulator looks like ?

Go somewhere and croak Phelps .

[NMMNG]

12. "And how exactly does he know how an anal-copulator looks like ?"

Remember that old expression "takes one to know one"?


Phelps is such a twisted craphead he makes the most severely mentally ill person I work with look healthy by comparison.

[pepperbear]

50. as Jon Stewart said...

"It's always about the butt sex".

[TWiley]

65. Welcome to DU pepperbear

And you are right, it is always about butt sex. What is wrong with these people anyway? I should think that an innocent child stepping on a land mine would be more significant.

[donco6]

4. He gets even more vitriolic all the time.

How low can he sink, anyway? It's like he's BEGGING to get attacked so he can claim the victim, and fill his coffers with more civil suit money.

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. "You are drippings from the Devil's own penis"

I don't know why, but all I can do is :rofl: Who writes this shit??

[Bluebear]

7. The more 'pious' they are it seems the dirtier their minds work

It reads like cut-rate porno.

[tlsmith1963]

25. It Sounds Like Some of the Things the Islamic Terrorists Say...

..do they have the same writers or something?:lol:

Tammy

[txaslftist]

47. My thoughts exactly.

[jody]

6. Why would Sweden give them a visa? n/t

[etherealtruth]

22. That was my question ... ?

[Hawkeye-X]

11. Know what? Let him in..

Then immediately arrest Phelps charging him with threatening the Crown. Let him really get to know Sweden. Perhaps he'kk eventually change his mind and go back and tear down godhatesfags.com and replace it with godlovesfags and create a new website called iamsorryforbeingsuchavitrolicassholeandwillpaybackwithloveandmoney.com and watch his ex congregation lynch him. Justice served.

[pepperbear]

41. don't they have hate speech laws there?

I thought they had very specific hate speech laws over there as a minister got himself in hot water for preaching the phelps party line.

so, uh, yeah, let him in.

[NorVegan]

13. About the tsunami..

This is what Phelps had to say: "Unconfirmed numbers of Swedes are dead as a result of the tsunamis which ravaged Thailand and the other lush resorts of that region, and thousands more are unaccounted for, either still rotting in the tropical conditions or buried, as they deserve, as asses in mass graves (see Jeremiah 22:19). Scarcely a family in Sweden has been untouched by the devastation. Bible preachers say, THANK GOD for it all!"

A majority of the Swedes vacationing in Thailand were families with small children..

[newyawker99]

23. Hi NorVegan!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[BR_Parkway]

14. Ok, now we have 2 "preachers" wanting to kill heads of state. n/t

[TWiley]

15. Is it just me, or these people really THAT stupid?

I mean the ones who say this stuff, and the ones who follow their causes.

This seems to answer that question What Would Jesus Do?
Evidently, he would go kill somebody.

[roguevalley]

16. This is interesting from Wikipedia

Health

In Topeka, Kansas, there is much speculation regarding Phelps's health. He is reported to be suffering from an advanced form of cancer or Parkinson's Disease and has made few recent appearances. Recent photographs showing apparent partial facial paralysis suggest that he may have suffered a very mild stroke for which he was never hospitalized. Also, the length and incoherence of many of his recent sermons, as well as a large number of bizarre claims (including "George Bush worships Mr. Peanut, whose name is the great God Goober"), suggest to many that he is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, senility, or has suffered brain damage due to his amphetamine and barbiturate addiction in the 1960s.

[Qanisqineq]

32. doesn't his congregation notice this?

re: "the length and incoherence of many of his recent sermons, as well as a large number of bizarre claims"

Or is his church so cult-like they don't notice or care?

[pepperbear]

43. actually

I have heard from MANY different sources that his "congregation" consists mainly of his extended family.

[Gruenemann]

35. Advanced syphilis, maybe?

Any medical types here want to comment?

[Tsiyu]

17. Oh, THIS ought to be fun!

I hope Sweden locks the lot of them up as terrorists. No rights, no lawyer, no trial by jury, some torture - just like we do at Gitmo.

Then the rightie tighties can explain the Geneva Conventions to Sweden.....:rofl:

[Binka]

18. I Just Heard On Rachel Maddow's Show

That the King of Sweden rear ended someone yesterday......could this throw more fuel on the fire of Demon Phelps'? Of course the King was driving his BMW at the time. Shouldn't the King be rear ending in a Volvo?

Fred Phelps and his whacked out daughter are the poster family for INCEST. Fuckwittages!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

19. Hunt down? LOL Try that BIG PALACE Fred!!

If you want someone who's hard to locate, try Cheyney, you sick bastid. Sweden should bar his entry and let him and his team of lawyers spend a year or ten contesting it.

[Walt Starr]

20. EXCELLENT!

the Swedes will arrest these assholes and throw them in prison for decades!

[smirkymonkey]

46. Oooh! Yes!

Plenty of anal copulation there!

"Come and get it you freak show!" You know he's asking for it.

[tlsmith1963]

24. Phelps is a Terrorist...

...& Robertson is a terrorist. They should both be in jail. But nooooo...Bush just *loves* them!:mad:

Tammy

[Joanne98]

26. There is a God......American terrorist Fred Phelps attacks Sweden....

Don't you love it when they go global?

[ellie]

34. Ha! I laughed aloud at that one!

[MadHound]

27. Well if the Swiss have any sense

They will have a full compliment of security waiting to escort Mr. Phelps to a jail cell. Threats against a head of state are quite serious charges in all countries. Serious enough for 10-20, one can hope.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

28. Phelps is now totally mentally ill, and the press should pay no more

attention to him than they would to any other random person who walks around with paranoid delusions.

(The alternative explanation is that he's some kind of demented performance artist.)

The only reason most people know about him at all is that the media keep giving him free publicity.

[Qanisqineq]

29. So does this mean Sweden can come to the US and attack Phelps?

And his whole congregation? A pre-emptive strike since he is threatening violence against them?

[bustarbusto]

39. That seems to be the logical course

Perhaps we can get the UN to threaten him with "serious consequences" first, and put together a sham coalition. Nah, why bother. We'll just wait until he gets here and smite him with herring.

[Bluebear]

56. Excellent point! nt

[DanCa]

30. Anything that gets phelps out of America

Anyway we can revoke his plane tickets back?

[MN ChimpH8R]

31. The Swedes should let Phelps in

then immediately lock him up. Ten or twenty years in a Swedish prison should settle ole Fred down real good.

[Swamp Rat]

33. Here's a pic for you Bluebear:

:D

[Bluebear]

57. Hahahahahahaha

He fits right in!

[auburngrad82]

36. I hope they lock him up and throw away the key

Then he'll be out of our hair forever.

[More Than A Feeling]

38. Fred Phelps is not an "American Baptist"

The American Baptist Church is the mainline Baptist denomination in the United States. Their website is here: www.abc-usa.org

Phelps' Westboro Baptist church is independent of any established denominational organization, if I am not mistaken.

[TWiley]

40. He is American and He is a Baptist.

That makes him an American Baptist right?

The religious calculus that determines who is a christian and who is not does not work very well.

They are Christian or Baptist if they claim to be. It is pretty difficult to determine anything else. As far as I can tell, there is not much supporting criteria to use as a qualifier.

[More Than A Feeling]

42. In this case the question is simple:

Is he a member of a church that is affiliated with the American Baptist Church, which is the name of an actual organization?

The answer is no.

I felt the point needed to be clarified, that is all. I am not claiming that Phelps' is or isn't Christian or Baptist, just that he is not a member of that particular organization.

[TWiley]

53. Oh, I did not know that there was an actual organization

called the "American Baptist" church. Sorry

[Lydia Leftcoast]

60. Lots of people don't know that

I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about Christian denominations, and I never heard of the American Baptist Church until I taught at one of their colleges.

At first I hesitated about taking a job there, because I thought they would forbid me to have wine with dinner or would monitor my love life, but the other faculty members assured me that these were the liberal Baptists and that they didn't care what I did on my own time.

Sure enough, a few years later, the American Baptist minister in town performed a marriage service for a gay couple.

The members of the Southern Baptist church in town (the Southern Baptists are also a denomination, not just Baptists who happen to be in the South) picketed the service.

So the American Baptist Church is about as far away from Fred Phelps as you can get.

[TWiley]

63. Well that is refreshing

Too bad these denominationa are not more vocal in their opposition. Without it, all of Christianity seems to be in agreement.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

64. They are vocal in their opposition, but the press prefers to

fuss over "colorful" loonies like Phelps. The sane Christians are lucky to get one column inch on the back page.

[Bluebear]

58. That's how the Swedish paper headlined it

no offense intended to 'real' baptists.

[More Than A Feeling]

59. see post 42

It has nothing to do with 'real' baptist or not.

[txaslftist]

44. Wow... I didn't even know he was real.

I thought the "king of Sweden" was just a made up lyric from the Blues Brothers movie. You know, Minnie the Moocher?

"She had a fling with the King of Sweden...
He gave her diamonds and things she was needin'.."

[imperialismispasse]

45. He's such a closet case.

[steve2470]

48. Why isn't this man locked up in a psych hospital ?

He's the new poster child for the civil rights of the mentally ill. I'm all for those civil rights, except he's talking about homicide now.

[lapislzi]

49. Surprised he hasn't organized demonstrations at IKEA

There's something decidedly not right about all those lingonberries.

[pepperbear]

51. exactly

how far to the right do you have to be to state on your website that Bush AND Falwell are both GOING TO HELL?!!? And then to declare that the Pope is already in Hell!

I would imagine after Jerry's latest "softening" of his stance on gay rights:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8870977/

that there must be a new circle JUST FOR HIM!

[DanCa]

52. How much jail time am I looking at if I belt phelps with my walker?

Or should I save my last fight for that hermaphrodite Hannity?

[TWiley]

54. Aw, belt phelps, what the heck.

He is such a strange little man. He came here to bitch about homosexuals, and I went down there to bitch at him even though I am heterosexual. He is one odd little man.

He would look good with a walker stuffed in his ass. Who would be the "anal copulator" then?

[DanCa]

55. Cool but than I'll have to get a new walker :)

Can you see the headlines homophobe preacher gets righteously rectaled by walker?

[im10ashus]

61. WTF?

"The King looks like an anal-copulator, & his grinning kids look slutty & gay."

Um, has Phelps taken a look at his own children? They look like a bunch of in-bred cave men. What an asshole. I hope he DOES go to Sweden. He will never be heard from again.

[TWiley]

62. Lets all chip in to by him a ticket to Sweeden

Then, we will tip off the police when he arrives.

His fantasies would be fullfilled. Anal Copulation with strangers behind bars.