No Funeral, After Death Of Westboro Church Founder Fred Phelps?

[Lady Freedom Returns]

This is what is being reported by WIBW in TOPEKA, Kan.

http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Family-Member-Confirms-Fred-Phelps-Has-Died-251212461.html

Margie Phelps, Phleps daughter, told WIBW-AM that there will be no funeral for him.

Over the weekend, we learned that Phelps was reportedly "on the edge of death."

In a statement on his Facebook page, Nathan Phelps, who has been estranged from his father for 30 years, said the senior Phelps was dying in hospice care in Topeka, Kan., and that he had been ex-communicated from his own church in August of 2013.

Also on CNN

But Shirley Phelps-Roper, Phelps' daughter, said Westboro will not hold a funeral for its patriarch."We do not worship the dead," Phelps-Roper told CNN.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Shocker...

[Cirque du So-What]

2. They can sure dish it out...

...but they can't face the possibility enduring taunts from detractors - assuming as they do that everyone else is just as hateful as they are.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. Shirley Phelps-Roper told CNN:

"We do not worship the dead."


Somehow, having a Funeral is a way to worship a person. These people get nuttier and nuttier!

[Cirque du So-What]

6. For not 'worshipping the dead'

they certainly put a lot of effort into other people's funerals.

[Iggo]

3. They'd have to be crazy to have a funeral for that hateful fuck.

[struggle4progress]

5. who?

[mackdaddy]

7. I promise to pour a little wine on his grave ever day in his honor ....

Hope they don't mind if passes through my kidneys on the way there.

[KamaAina]

8. Buck-buck-BRAWWWK!!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

13. ...

[FSogol]

9. No, "public funeral." Him and his mourners (moraners?) will get the peace they denied others.

[Uben]

10. "The evil men do lives after them....

...and the good is oft interred with their bones."
Shakespeare must have been channeling this dude. I would bet that there was a time when Phelps was a different person...one with more compassion and understanding. I don't know his bio, but most (in my opinion) people who choose a life of sharing the gospel, start out with good intentions.

I can't think of anything good to say about Phelps, so I'll leave it at that.

[treestar]

11. Wow how blatant

We don't want people doing to him what he did to other people. Not exactly living by the golden rule there.

[Nika]

12. Well, I hope they at least put a wooden stake through his heart to make sure he is gone.