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Tuesday, February 28, 2006



He's Not Crazy, I Think Fred Phelps Is Gay

Leonard Pitts Jr.
won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004. He is the author of Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood. His column runs every Monday and Friday in the Miami Herald.

Column: Fire and Brimstone, the surest way to say you're gay

Allow me to share with you an epiphany. I think Fred Phelps is gay.

Not that I'd have any way to know for sure, and not that there's anything wrong with that. But it seems obvious to me that Freddie has spent a little time up on Brokeback Mountain, if you catch my drift. I'm thinking he's secretly into show tunes, interior decorating and man-sized love.

Granted, that's not the first thing that comes to mind when you talk about the Fredster, who is defined by an apparently pathological hatred of all things homosexual. Perhaps you remember how his followers desecrated the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student who was beaten and left to die on a prairie fence in Wyoming eight years ago. They showed up at the funeral bearing signs that said, ``God Hates Fags.''

Now Phelps has updated his act. His ''thinking,'' if you want to use that word, is that the casualties of the Iraq war are divine retribution for this country's tolerance of homosexuality. So, he says, thank God for the IED's, improvised explosive devices, that have sent so many American soldiers home in dead and broken pieces.

DANCING ON GRAVES

Phelps' followers -- he pastors a church in Topeka, Kan., where most of the congregants are members of his family -- have been showing up at military funerals to express this view. Picture it: As your son, sister, wife, brother is being consigned to the soil, these idiots pop up with signs, loudly celebrating his or her death.

[...]

WE ARE WHAT WE HATE

Hear me out. How often have we seen public moralists railing against that which they themselves secretly indulge in? Think Jimmy Swaggart with his prostitute. Think Dr. Laura's pose in the nude. And for goodness' sake, how many times have we seen homosexuality condemned by those who turned out to be closeted themselves? There was Pat Robertson biographer-turned-gay activist Mel Stewart, Spokane Mayor James West who spent his days opposing gay rights and his nights in gay chat rooms, and Gary Cooper and Michael Bussee, who founded a group that purported to cure people of homosexuality, but gave it up when they fell in love with each other.

Consider all that, and then consider the sick ferocity of Phelps' attack:

God hates ``fags.''

Gays are vomit-eating dogs.

Gays are ``worthy of death.''

Can you say ''self hatred,'' boys and girls? Come on, isn't it obvious? The poor fellow is gayer than a Bette Midler AIDS benefit. In San Francisco.

He needs not our condemnation but our understanding. Maybe someday he'll find the strength to stop living this lie. He might just go on to be the greatest gay rights activist this country has ever known. Maybe then, in the arms of the right man, he'll stop hurting.

Kind of chokes me up to think about it.

The Reverend Phelps has issues. He needs to find someone to “experiment” with and thereby confront his inner pervert

What are the odds in this universe that a two person genes could combine and become a unique individual. You are so lucky to be alive!  An even higher improbability is that matter could combine, form into a sentient creature , and have that creature grow up to be the good Rev. Phelps.

How could you waste your one in a billion chance of life and intelligence on voluntarily being Rev. Phelps? It makes me think that God must be like W.C. Fields.



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