Fred Phelps

Answers to the Riverfront Times 2012 News Quiz

In January Riverfront Times published its annual "News Challenge" -- 78 multiple-choice questions testing how well readers paid attention to current events over the past twelve months. Within a week, more than 100 of you submitted your answers to us. A few weeks later a dozen readers e-mailed a simi ... More >>

Coloring Book Wants Kids to Know "Being Gay Is Okay"

"My dad and dad are gay. They love me just as much as my friends' moms and dads love them. I'm happy to be in a gay family." So reads a caption in Being Gay Is Okay, the latest children's novel from St. Louis publisher Really Big Coloring Books, a company that is no stranger to controversy. See a ... More >>

RFT's 10 Biggest Stories of 2012

They're probably not the most important stories of 2012, but if you wish to really know what's up in St. Louis, make sure you've made it through the ten most-viewed articles on Riverfronttimes.com in 2012. Happy New Year! 10) Samantha Edwards: Charged With Naked Ice Capades in Greene CountyIt's all ... More >>

Gateway Pundit Says Westboro Baptist Church is "Left-Wing." So What Are His Views On Gays?

Over the past week, St. Louis-based political blogger Jim Hoft, a.k.a. Gateway Pundit, has caused a bit of an Internet stir by referring to Fred Phelps and his batshit-insane Westboro Baptist Church as a "left-wing cult."Left-wing? How could you possibly label a gay-bashing, abortion-hating, Obama-l ... More >>

Federal Appeals Court Sides Against "God Hates Fags" Church On Law Limiting Funeral Protests

Federal appeals judges in St. Louis ruled today that yes, in fact, the City of Manchester does have the right under the Constitution to restrict where and when certain folks -- meaning the hate-spewing death-cult, Westboro Baptist Church -- can picket funerals. (Who would want to picket a funer ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church To Raise Funds for LGBT Equality

​As reported earlier, the Westboro Baptist Church has scheduled a protest at Clayton High School on Monday, February 6. The WBC wants to publicly denounce the students and faculty for their inclusiveness and tolerance of others -- because they're dicks, you see -- and also because when the WBC do ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church to Protest Clayton High School

​Suppurating asshole Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church plan to bring their piquant blend of ignorance, religious hate and general dicketry to Clayton High School for a 30-minute protest on Monday, February 6, according to this batshit-crazy flier posted on his website. The group plans to ... More >>

When the Reverend Katy Hawker headed to the altar, her church came, too

God Agrees with Lady Gaga, Church Sign Confirms

Pastor Rick Meyer of the Maplewood United Church of Christ is out with a new sign in front of his suburban St. Louis parish.​For those in need of a bit of cultural context, "Born This Way" is Lady Gaga's gay-rights anthem featuring the following video...

Westboro Baptist Church Sues St. Charles City; Wins Injunction vs. St. Charles County

Plaintiff Megan Phelps-Roper protesting in St. Louis last summer.​It took the Westboro Baptist Church just one day to sue St. Charles after the city last week enacted an ordinance restricting when and where protesters can picket during funerals. Westboro Baptist Church has made a name for itself i ... More >>

A Look Inside the Westboro Baptist Church

If you've missed KMOV's peek this week inside the Westboro Baptist Church, it's worth checking out. Reporter Craig Cheatham spent a few days in Topeka hanging out with Rev. Fred Phelps and his offspring -- which make up about 90 percent of the controversial "God Hates Fags" congregation. Here's one ... More >>

God Punished Missouri with Tornadoes, Says Westboro Baptist Church

The wingnuts with Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church plan to picket tomorrow at noon outside the St. Charles County administrative building. The controversial Kansas-based church, best known for its "God's Hates Fags" message, is upset that county council members are trying to block its membe ... More >>

The 2010 RFT News Challenge

Weston, MO Townsfolk Block Phelps Hate-Fest

Weston isn't having this trash in their town​Anti-gay hate mongers from Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church were repulsed from a funeral by about half the small town of Weston in Platte County on Saturday.The people in the town got wind of the Westboro hate group's plan to protest the funeral of ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Cardinals Game This Weekend. Let's Put Their Press Release to Good Use.

Image viaSeriously, this is just wrong.​Fred Phelps and his hate-spewing minions at the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church have made more than a few appearances in St. Louis this year. They picketed Lady Gaga at the Scottrade Center and a Cardinals game at Busch Stadium back in July. And now, it ... More >>

Lady Gaga Can't Save "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

Image ViaLady Gaga at Monday's rally.​Missouri Senator Kit Bond joined his Republican colleagues and three Democrats yesterday in defeating a defense spending bill that would repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy allowing gays to openly serve in the armed forces. (Sen. Claire McCask ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Wins Lawsuit vs. Missouri; Free to Protest Funerals Unrestricted

Rev. Phelps: Open for business in Missouri.​Two Missouri laws aimed specifically at controversial Rev. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church were struck down yesterday in federal court in Jefferson City. State legislators passed the laws back in 2006. One prohibited protests near a church or ... More >>

God Does Love Gays, Church Sign Confirms

Spied outside the Maplewood United Church of Christ yesterday...​Are you listening, Fred Phelps?

Mizzou Law Professor Comes to Defense of Fred Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church

Megan Phelps, grand-daughter of Fred, protesting outside a St. Louis concert last week.​University of Missouri law professor Christina Wells recently fired off a letter to the Supreme Court defending the free speech of the controversial Fred Phelps. As you'll recall, Phelps is the pastor of the We ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Cardinals Game Saturday

Fred Phelps: Knows a thing or two about Cardinals sin. ​The Rev. Fred Phelp's Westboro Baptist Church is planning to picket outside Busch Stadium this Saturday when the Cardinals are in town to face the Dodgers. The church announced the protest on its website, calling St. Louis "that evil city wit ... More >>

Ass Clown(s) of the Week: Rev. Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church

Phelps packs it up after a convincing victory.​The votes are in and the first Ass Clown of 2010 goes to a man and his followers who are well accustomed to derision and buffoonery. Forty-one percent of Daily RFT readers last week picked Rev. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church as Ass Clowns ... More >>

Ass Clown of the Week: Who's the First Moron of 2010?

​We're only eight days into the new year, but based on the number of outrageous and depraved acts revealed this week, oh what a year 2010 shall be! That said, it's time to vote on the year's first crop of Ass Clowns. Choose the local news-maker below who you think brought the most shame and disgra ... More >>

Lady Gaga Protesters and Supporters Cancel Tonight's Pre-Concert Events

As reported earlier today here on A to Z, Lady Gaga's fabulous show will still go on tonight as scheduled, despite the snow.But protesters and supporters of the singer have canned their respective grandstanding because of the weather.Which means drivers who happen to pass the Fox tonight around 7 p. ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Calls Off Protest of Tonight's Lady Gaga Show in St. Louis

Fred Phelps​As reported here at Daily RFT a couple weeks back, the Rev. Fred Phelps and the followers of his Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church planned to protest tonight's Lady Gaga concert at the Fox Theatre. Why? Because the "hussy" (a.k.a. Gaga) "teaches rebellion against God". Sadly, though ... More >>

The Westboro Baptist Church Does Lady Gaga Karaoke: "Yeah, You Just Got Your Whorish Face"

​On New Year's Eve, Megan Phelps, the granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church pastor Fred Phelps, posted her own version of Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." The WBC, as you'll recall, will be protesting Gaga's sold-out January 7 show at the Fabulous Fox. (A counter-protest is also planned; more deta ... More >>

Protesters Will Get Gaga for Lady Gaga Before Her January 7 St. Louis Concert at the Fox Theatre

Human lightning rod Lady Gaga and her handlers aren't letting many press photographers into her show at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on January 7, but there could be more news cameras outside the venue when her tour hits St. Louis.Timothy Norris / LA WeeklyLady Gaga at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles o ... More >>

Rev. Fred Phelps: "God Hates Lady Gaga" Almost As Much As "God Hates Fags"

Does the lady even have a forehead? We've never seen it.​Fred Phelps, the pastor of Wesboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, is not "gaga" about many people. In fact he hates 'em. Yes, we're talking about you: homosexuals, Jews, priests, presidents and world residents.Now, add to Phelp's shit lis ... More >>

Clever Boy

He says he was too subtle for police; they say he wouldn't behave