tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post2210423324748842626..comments2024-03-19T13:11:49.614-07:00Comments on Save Send Delete: "Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church" by Lauren Drain: Book Review D Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-82024535915417018982014-01-12T12:30:36.600-08:002014-01-12T12:30:36.600-08:00Liron, here's an interview with an estranged s...Liron, here's an interview with an estranged son of Fred Phelps. May be the interview you refer to.<br /><br />http://www.salon.com/2012/09/25/son_of_a_bigot/D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-73429480163143494112014-01-11T01:02:55.123-08:002014-01-11T01:02:55.123-08:00"...would be right if some of the profits wen..."...would be right if some of the profits went to homosexuals, Catholics, Jews, and the US military." <br /><br />Or to gay soldiers in the US military. <br /><br />According to one of Phelps' estranged sons, Fred Phelps treated his wife and many children abominably. In an interview, the son described vicious beatings, psychological torture, etc. FP should have been locked up years ago. Instead, he's spending his dotage tormenting the relatives of fallen soldiers. <br /><br />His daughter, the erstwhile tramp Shirley, is evil; watch her face when she's interviewed on TV--evil. I cannot even begin to imagine the hell she must have gone through as a child, but I do not pity her. She forfeited pity when she expressed approval of the murder of those Amish schoolgirls. <br /><br />You mentioned a desire to belong as one of the reasons people join the WBC. I think that there's something else going on here, something that exists in every cult--to wit, something sexual. A few years ago, I watched parts of a British documentary on this sorry bunch, and one of the things that struck me was the way in which the women (and many of the men) in the congregation responded to Phelps' lurid descriptions of hellfire and damnation. Anyone with eyes could see that they were actually aroused by the rantings of that shameless old snake. <br />Liron Rubinnoreply@blogger.com