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From Yahoo news comes an interesting article on Our Friend (not) Fred:
Kansas minister preaches doom and hatred
By MATT SEDENSKY, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 3, 12:38 PM ET
OGDEN, Iowa - The soldier's flag-draped casket is set on the gymnasium floor, below the unlit scoreboard, before bleachers crowded with mourners.
They are there for Sgt. Daniel Sesker, the young man known for an infectious laugh and a wide smile, his life taken abruptly by an improvised explosive device outside Tikrit. Inside his high school, those who loved him are just beginning to grieve.
Outside, near a cornfield awaiting planting, picketers thank God for Daniel Sesker's death, talk approvingly of his entrance into hell, and mock the mourners. Amid gusting winds, they struggle to hold up signs that read "Thank God for IEDs" and "God Hates Your Tears."
And back home in Kansas, tucked away in an office over Westboro Baptist Church, Pastor Fred Phelps need only think of what he's done, and he cracks a smile. ( Read more )
Interesting Yahoo article on the Phelps clan
about leading a moral life, according to Billy Graham
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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY willowwild) LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY hephaestos) LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY folktraveler) Saturday, June 03, 2006 Trial Court Enjoins Unconstitutional Iowa Religion-in-Prisons Program
Marty Lederman Judge Robert Pratt of the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of Iowa yesterday issued a judgment and a 140-page opinion declaring unconstitutional the State of Iowa's establishment of a rehabilitation program operated in the state prison system by the InnerChange Freedom Initiative, a substidiary of Chuck Colson's Prison Fellowship Ministries. |