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May 9, 2013
Victim of Westboro Baptist Church confronts former gay hate member

Libby Phelps-Alvarez, the granddaughter of the founder of the homophobic church, breaks down in tears when speaking to a fallen soldier's mother

A mother whose son’s funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church had the chance to tell a former member how she felt about the congregation.

Earlier this week, Libby Phelps-Alvarez appeared on Anderson Live to discuss growing up in the gay hate church and why she decided to leave.

The granddaughter of founder Fred Phelps, she said she thought she had been doing the right thing in spreading homophobia and picketing funerals by the age of eight.

March 19, 2013
Peace activists paint rainbow on house opposite anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church

'God Hates Fags' church is now sitting opposite the Equality House, proudly displaying the colors of the gay pride flag

March 11, 2013
Westboro Baptist Church plans protest against pro-gay NASCAR driver

'God Hates Fags' church is planning to picket a motor racing event after driver Brad Kaselowski said he would have no problem with a gay member on his team

The Westboro Baptist Church is planning a protest of an upcoming motor racing event in response to pro-gay comments made by a famous driver.

Brad Kaselowski, who drives and owns a team in the stock car racing events, was asked last week by Queers4Gears how he would feel about a gay person in his team.

He said: ‘I can’t speak for the fans, I can only speak for myself, but in this garage, if you can win, people will want to be a part of what you can do.’

December 28, 2012
Westboro Baptist Church threaten to picket more funerals

The Westboro Baptists have threatened to picket the funerals of two New York state fire fighters who were shot to death when they attended a house fire on Christmas Eve and of retired US general Norman Schwarzkopf who died yesterday

Following their no-show at memorial services for victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, members of the Westboro Baptist Church have threatened to picket the funeral of two New York state firefighters who were shot and killed on Christmas Eve when they attended a house fire in the Rochester area.

December 27, 2012
Fox News claims Westboro Baptists are a ‘left-wing’ hate group

Fox News says Westboro Baptist leader Fred Phelps, who thinks Obama is the Anti-Christ, is a Democrat and his church a ‘left-wing cult’

America’s Fox News network has made the extraordinary claim that the Westboro Baptist Church are a left-wing organization.

December 24, 2012
Westboro Baptists’ Sandy Hook protest plans thwarted

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church never left their hotel rooms after volunteers from across the US traveled to Newtown, Connecticut, to form a human barrier to prevent them from reaching the memorial service for Sandy Hook Elementary principal Dawn Hochsprung

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church traveled to the Connecticut town Newtown with the intention of picketing memorial services for the victims of the mass shooting at the town’s elementary school but never left their hotel rooms thanks to a resounding community response.

December 17, 2012
Anonymous hacks anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church

Hacking group takes over Westboro Baptist Church spokesperson’s twitter account and leak church members info following their plans to picket victims’ funerals

The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) blamed marriage equality in Connecticut for the tragic shooting spree in Newtown that took 26 lives.

The Church announced that it will picket the funerals of the children with banners saying ‘God Hate Fags’ and other anti-gay hate messages.

Shirley Phelps-Roper, spokesperson of WBC and daughter of its leader, Fred Phelps, tweeted, ‘Westboro will picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment’.

December 16, 2012
Westboro Baptists threaten to picket Sandy Hook shooting site

The Westboro Baptists will picket the site of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, which they say is God’s way of punishing the state of Connecticut for legalizing same-sex marriage

Members of the infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church have threatened to picket the site of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting less than a day after the tragedy, claiming that the shooting was God’s punishment for the state of Connecticut legalizing same-sex marriage.

Prominent church member Shirley Phelps-Roger made the threat via twitter, posting ‘Westboro will picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment.’

January 6, 2012
Christopher Hitchens remembered by lifelong friend

Doug Ireland recalls Hitchens early sexual experiences and contribution to literature and gay life

The story of writer Christopher Hitchens’ earliest gay experiences at school and his later contribution to gay life have been told in a moving tribute by his friend Doug Ireland.

Christopher Hitchens was a prolific British American writer, journalist and gay rights advocate with strong, and in some cases, highly controversial political and religious views, who died of pneumonia, a complication of oesophageal cancer on 15 December.

December 17, 2011
Author Christopher Hitchens dies at 62

Christopher Hitchens, author of provocative bestseller God is Not Great, died yesterday at the age of 62

Vocal gay rights supporter and atheist author Christopher Hitchens died yesterday in a hospital in Texas after suffering from pneumonia brought on by a long battle with cancer.

The prolific and public intellectual was known to enjoy his cigarettes and drink (enough to 'kill or stun the average mule') and announced in June 2010 he was being treated for cancer of the oesophagus.