Westboro Baptist Church’s Goal: Making Money

The Westboro Baptist Church is a well-known hate group that runs sites such as “God Hates Fags” and shows up at soldiers funerals to protest their alleged support of homosexuality.

Read the following article on why the WBC does this- it’s not out of some insane religious notion, it’s a get-rich-quick scam.  The whole family is attorneys and tries to get people to violate their rights so they can sue the police, city, government & military for not protecting them as their Constitutional rights give them.  Keep in mind these are not my words below, they are just posted here for general information dissemination.

The Scam of the Decade
Fred Phelps does not believe what he is doing. This is a scam.

It’s a business. They travel the country, set up websites telling you exactly when they’ll be there, and using the most inflammatory statements all over the place, just to get someone to violate their rights for profit. Then they sue the military, the police force that was to protect them, and everyone that is around them for money. This is a sham, and it is a trap to get people sued. Every member of his family is an attorney. Phelps does not break the law. What he does is try to make you break the law by trying to punch your sensibilities about everything you hold dear, and then sue you and everyone municipality around him to the max.

This is a scam.

Whether he believes his posters or not is irrelevant.
He’s using this as a moneymaking scheme.
Lay one finger on him, do one thing that violates him, and he will sue you, and more importantly, the city, the police department, the US Military, and any private property owner he happens to be standing on to make money off of it.

Let’s look at the ways he’s trying to get you up in a tizzy to violate his civil rights for profit:

  • He says God Hates Fags, God hates the US Govt., that God hates the US Military, God Hates you, and God justifies the killing of others.
    Phelps knows that saying ‘God’ and ‘Hate’ in the same sentence gets people worked up. He knows that. He knows that people have a knee jerk reaction to that.
  • He says that the US Govt. and the United States are evil.
    This is another hot button with people who love their country. It is intentional. It is designed to make you take a swing at him. He wants $50,000 from you. He wants a Powerball winner to swing at him so he gets 100 million dollars. It’s that simple.
  • He goes after homosexuals, he goes after people who are making sacrifices. Phelps intentionally targets people that are being victimized, or good people doing their jobs to create more outrage. He kicks people when they’re down. He does that so someone will come up and defend them. Then he will sue you.
  • His boards are laminated on hardwood, because he pulls them out of trucks at least five times a week. He also puts them in bright colors for attention, and makes absolutely sure that you can read them at all time. He’s phishing you. Everyone must know that.

The most telling tale about all of Phelp’s behavior is the schedule he keeps, and the company he keeps as well. The parties sometimes split up and go to two separate state funerals to maximize the profitability of them. There are, at maximum, twelve members to the party. They never stay more than thirty minutes (I assume they realize that someone will do something to them the MOMENT they come out of the vans, and really, after that, they get their camera shots to cause the outrage for the next stop, and then they move on) to maximize their profits, because time is money, and really, they’re not interested in the message, because they’re just interested in the lawsuit.

See? They don’t believe this stuff. If they did, they wouldn’t have come to Coretta Scott King’s funeral. Because in their doctrine, they don’t believe that G-d hates black people who tried to promote Christianity. So why were they there? They were there to make a buck when someone slipped up. They were there to petition the police department for a right to protest, and if they didn’t get it, take them to court over it.

Basically, Phelps is playing the Ken Lay, Karl Rove, “Smartest Man in the Room” game where he is willing to do anything (if it be lying or stealing, or telling you God hates you) to make himself rich and powerful. This is his scheme, and admittedly, it’s clever, but just downright evil to promote so much hatred in the world.

Tell all your friends about this.
This man is a con artist, and he’s not a man of religion whatsoever.

After all, he makes everyone around him a lawyer.
That should tell you right now he is not anything.
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How do I know that Fred Phelps is suing people? I can tell you I just have too much experience around him. I am a journalist in Nashville, TN, and work at a television station that works the Ft. Campbell area. As a television photographer and journalist, I have been trained in all of the rules of private property, verbal conversation, what is legal and what is not legal, etc. (what you can and cannot say, what you can get away with). Honestly, in the last few months, I have seen waaay too much of Mr. Phelps and his crew. Since the war began, I believe they think this is the moneymaking source of a lifetime.

So how am I sure? After the third run in, and not one slip, not one piece of paperwork out of line, I knew something was fishy. My newsman skepticism left me with the idea later that something was more phishy than fishy.
I will tell you where I got this truth about Phelps. I looked him in the eye. I saw that he was way too calm and collected for what he looked like in the media. I noticed that he never made personal statements against a person, which is verbal assault, and an out against a lawsuit. Also, for a religious fanatic, a group of people who pride themselves on personal attacks, he was running a protest so terribly by the books that I was impressed by it. He will not bait a person, ever. He will not make personal attacks. He will make blanket statements. He will look at a person in the crowd that he thinks is gay, walk over to his stack of signs, pull out the appropriate, well designed, easily read, laminated bright board, and hold it up and loudly proclaim that “gays are going to hell” or some such nonsense, and make eye contact, but he will never cross the line of telling that person that they’re going to hell. That would be the part that would screw up the lawsuit. He just wants to get them after him, but wants to appear utterly blameless for damages.

They run too tight of a ship to slip up, and at that point, I realized that the objective of the group was not anything religious at all. Someone told me along the way that they were all turned into lawyers after he got disbarred. After that, the stench was just too intense for me. He makes money off of this. He does this so much he has everyone around him do the legal legwork so he doesn’t have to pay anyone else.

The last time confirmed everything I suspected about them.
A few weeks later, I saw them again (they LOVE to come to big name funerals) and after I saw the laminated signs change for the audience, I knew EXACTLY what they were doing.

His ‘crew’ isn’t a ‘church’ as you and I would know. The ‘church’ are more of a motley crew of family members. Some of them are six year old children that are doing what they’re told. I have spoken to them, and they have a lawyers sensibility on them on how they speak to the public. They never make personal attacks. They never verbally assault anyone. For a group of people that are accusing damn near every group of people around them for going to hell, wouldn’t that seem odd to you? Do you know any religious fanatics that don’t make personal attacks? I don’t.

They also don’t stick around after the cameras roll. They have an itinerary like a semi truck driver. For them to get cleared for all of these press event protests they’re doing, then they have to have someone at home doing all of the setup. For you to get the press clearances by the prescribed times? That’s a lot of professional legwork. I should know, I’ve coordinated a newsrooms credentials when the President comes to town, and that’s a lot of phone calls and faxes.

They probably file a load of civil rights violation lawsuits. If a police department looks them up and says, “we’re denying your protest right,” BOOYah. They just got to sue a police department for the very thing that Americans can’t stand, rights violation. I am assuming that this is where they get almost all of their money.

See my previous post. Their beliefs are so riddled with inconsistency. The ‘real inconsistency’ is that every position that contradicts every other of their beliefs is designed to maximize the number of people that they offend. You cannot be saved to them. You are evil in their beliefs, no matter who you are, and God will punish you like the evil gays/soldiers/innocent people/people who love America/people who are black/everyone else we can think of.

Here’s the proof. Who in the world makes a poster that says, “Thank God for IEDs” (Improvised Explosive Devices, aka Roadside Bombs). They are saying God is with the terrorists. Then they say God hates you. And homosexuals. Then when they see you looking patriotic with your American flag shirt, they point the sign at you and say, “Americans are going to hell for supporting this country!” and look you in the eye. NOTICE THOUGH, they never say, “You’re going to hell.” (That would give a judge an out to deny them their claim.)

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19 thoughts on “Westboro Baptist Church’s Goal: Making Money”

  1. You cannot have 2 master. Either you’ll love one and despise the other. You cannot serve Christ and the dollar and coins. Mt 6:24 Either you live for the glory of Christ (Col 1:27 Christ in you the hope of glory) or Your bank account and when you die you’ll not bring what you have put in. Those that didnt do anything to enrich your bank account will inherit what you’ve have worship. Pr 28:8,9. I just pray that you come to your sense and agree and yield to what the Spirit of Christ wants you to do.

  2. Note that Fred Phelps was disbarred from the practice of law by the Kansas Supreme Court: State v. Phelps, 598 P.2d 180 (Kan. 1979) and In re Phelps, 459 P.2d 172 (Kan. 1969). Said the Court: “Phelps has, by his conduct, shown that he does not have the proper concept of the obligations devolving upon an attorney requiring him to deal fairly and honorably with his clients, and enjoining him to demean himself in such manner as not to bring embarrassment to nor discredit upon his profession.”

    Now, THAT really speaks to his moral authority!

  3. Why do so many people use so much energy to hate, when tolerance and equality make so much sense…

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  9. I have always wondered why Fred Phelps and company seem to have a different flavor as anti-gay protesters than the others I’ve known for the past 40 years as a gay rights demonstrator. Also, I find it odd that he picks on soldiers and draws a rather awkward connection with soldiers and gays. This blog entry seems to be the best explanation that I’ve ever heard. It makes sense to me. Thanks for the entry, JoelX.

  10. Please help me. I live in harrisburg il. And on wed. Mornong we we re hit with a horrible tornado. The wbc has announced they plan to show up at 6 funerals that will be taking place this weekend for the victims of this tragedy. My town is currently arranging some plans bit reading your blog im not sure how we shoud handle these people. These families have been through enough and this is hurting our town

  11. I would also like some input on ladonnas post please. Everyone is getting hyped up on these people. Will it hurt the town in the long run to hold a block to prevent these people from protesprotesting the funerals like they claim?

  12. Thanks for the info they are coming to protest tomorro in harrisburg illionis and people are angre with then for sure

  13. Thank you for this information. I was unaware of it but now it makes total sense. So, how is this legal? If there is no law to stop it, there needs to be. And soon. This protesting of innocents, disregarding their privacy to a sane and dignified funeral is criminal. How is this legal? Why isnt it stopped? You have exposed them for what they truly are, he was disbarred for having no ethics or morals and yet he can do this without reprocussion. Why isnt the FBI doing something about this? If they can legally protest funerals for people who have nothing to do with them and their so called beliefs which is just a ruse anyways, something should exist that can bring them up on charges and cost them a lot of money. Stupidity and convienent blindness are too common in our country and its authorities especially when it comes to money. But to go out in public drawing all the attention they do on innocents who are dealing with tradgey, has to be illegal in some way. And I cant see any Judge allowing them to sue anyone much less a city government, for protecting innocents rights to bury their dead. The family of the deceased have no rights? None? We now know its a scam, like traveling gypsy buiding contractors, and yet they cant be touched? What can we do to change this?

  14. Well JJ it’s quite simple. The US government has instituted a law about protesting military funerals but not civilian funerals, to my knowledge. Individual states are taking the laws a step further but they cannot make it illegal as it would be a violation of the 1st Amendment. You can thank our fore fathers and the ACLU.

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