Gay Group Hosts Fred Phelps
by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: March 8, 2005 5:01 pm ET
(Fort Wayne, Indiana) The Equal Rights Coalition will play host to America's most notable homophobe in Fort Wayne on Sunday. The Rev. Fred Phelps, who runs the God Hates fags website and whose followers regularly demonstrate against LGBT rights has agreed to take part in a forum on gay rights.
Members of Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas - most of whom are family members - gained national notoriety when they protested outside the 1998 funeral for Matthew Shepard, the gay college student beaten to death in Wyoming.
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The Equal Rights Coalition has scheduled the forum for 11 a.m. Sunday at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.
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"We'll accommodate it if it's anywhere near reasonable," Phelps said. "It's just a wonderful way to show the contrast between the truth of God and the abomination of sin."
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http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/03/030805phelps.htmIndiana Equality Coalition
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Topeka church's leader also will protest play in Fort Wayne on murdered gay student.
Associated Press
March 7, 2005
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- An anti-gay minister who picketed the funeral of a murdered gay college student and plans to protest a play about the man's death said he would take part in a forum on gay rights.
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The Equal Rights Coalition has scheduled the forum for Sunday at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne as an alternative to counterprotests that could lead to confrontations.
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The protests are scheduled for the same day as a children's music program at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, one of the targeted churches, and the Rev. Phil Emerson said members' main concern was "protecting our children from obscenity."
Emerson said Phelps' message was a perversion of Christianity.
"One cannot hate in the name of God," he said.
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