The Most Hated Family in America

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# I'm ashamed to be an American

Where the fags can freely roam

# They spread their filth around

this land, every pervert calls... #

'I've been living among members

of the Westboro Baptist Church.'

'A fire-and-brimstone

Christian group made up almost

entirely of a single family.'

# God hates the U...S...A... #

Welcome to our picket!

'Since the Iraq War, they've

picketed dead soldiers' funerals

'in protest against an America

that tolerates homosexuality.'

Members of the Westboro Baptist

Church of Topeka are protesting...

America is doomed!

God hates fags!

Are you a homosexual?

Are you or not?

Shirley Phelps taught her 11 kids

not just to hate homosexuals...

We're servants of the living God.

That's all that matters.

'The Westboro Baptist Church is

probably the most controversial

church in America.' Obey your God!

Is this in the Bible? Fags

eat faeces. That's a fact, hon!

This programme contains

some strong language.

'The church is situated

in a suburb of Topeka, Kansas.

'Its pastor is the family patriarch

Fred Phelps, also known as Gramps.'

Hi. Hi there. You must be Shirley.

Yes. I'm Louis. Hi, Louis...

'But the day-to-day operations

are now run by the pastor's

daughter, Shirley,

'a lawyer and mother

to 11 children.'

So these are your signs.

You've got "God hates fags" here.

And "God hates you".

Don't think of fags as just those

guys taking it up the tailpipe.

You've got "God hates fags" here.

Think of it as people who are

involved in some perverted sex act.

I'm talking about anything

other than one man, one woman

in their marriage bed.

So beneath that are there

gradations of iniquity, as it were?

If you see a nation or a people

who have risen up with one voice

to say that it's OK to be gay,

they are a doomed people,

they have crossed the line.

When you say "gay pride", you have

given over any notion that you're

gonna admit that you're sinning.

You understand that? Being gay is

an innocent, alternate lifestyle?

That's what I believe.

Then you can't say,

then you believe it's not a sin.

That's what I believe.

they are a doomed people,

then you believe it's not a sin.

So you condemn yourself cos

by your words are you justified and

by your words are you condemned.

But it wasn't a big thing

for Jesus. He had other priorities

rather than homosexuality.

It's not one

of the Ten Commandments. Yes.

The streets of this nation are full

of married men having fag sex.

That's adultery.

So don't try to pretend that you

don't come under the umbrella of

adultery just because you're a fag.

Hi, guys. Hi.

Hi. This is Gabriel. How do you do?

Go put your stuff away.This is Grace.

'For the last few years, the church

has taken its message of God's hate

'to the funerals of soldiers killed

in Iraq and Afghanistan,

Reasoning they were struck down by God

for fighting for a depraved and doomed nation.

What is the plan? We'll get out

here and put these signs in the air.

At the funeral? You call it that,

but they're worshipping the dead.

You do research into the soldiers

that have died? Staff-Sergeant

Kevin Zeigler. He died of an IED.

That's a... Roadside bomb. Right,

an improvised explosive device.

Exactly. His family was told that

he and another soldier died while

trying to disable the explosive.

He was 31. Do you think

it's possible that by getting

in people's faces in this way,

you're more likely

to put people off the word

of Jesus Christ and the Bible?

You do research into the soldiers

to put people off the word

of Jesus Christ and the Bible?

Just human psychology? You think

our job is to win souls to Christ.

You do research into the soldiers

Just human psychology? You think

in people's faces in this way,

By getting in their face

and putting signs in front of them,

we just make what was already in

their heart come out of their mouth.

we just make what was already in

This is what I really think.

You do research into the soldiers

But there's a part of you that

doesn't think that? No, there's not.

You do research into the soldiers

Because we are the evil angels.

EVIL angels? Exactly.

Not because we're evil, but we're

bringing the message of the evil

that God has determined upon you.

bringing the message of the evil

God didn't do evil? My goodness!

Come on, guys.

Let's get outta here. Let's bail!

You do research into the soldiers

bringing the message of the evil

of Jesus Christ and the Bible?

This is our corner.

Come on, little boys! Zach, hop in

in case he wants you...

I'm just here as a journalist...

Yes. ..Shirley. Yes.

'Today's picket was

at an intersection

near a church in Kansas City.

'Among the picketers was the

pastor's wife, though of the pastor

himself there was no sign.

'Like many states, Missouri has

established strict regulations

'to try and limit the Phelps'

contact with the bereaved

'and I was relieved

to see how far from the funeral

the church members had to be.'

to see how far from the funeral

the church members had to be.'

ALL CHANT:

God hates America!

This is shameful. Yeah.

Right down shameful. Yeah, hon.

You've got little kids like this...

You obviously raised

your brat for the devil, your big

gluttonous brat for the devil!

And you go to Hell.

I don't agree with the lifestyle.

I don't agree with the lifestyle.

Yes, you do. No, I don't.

you hate God, so just shut up!

What was he talking about?

"I don't agree with fags,

but que sera sera..."

F*** you! You think

you can fix this? You think

you're gonna change God?

go down there? America is doomed.

but so far the reaction has been

approximately 100% negative.

Would you agree? Yeah.

Is there another way

of delivering the message,

you can fix this? You think

like a letter of consolation

to the soldier's family?

We do letters, but not consolation.

You angered God

and now he's cursed your family!

They're not gonna have

any consolation.

As a picket today, how would you

rate this, marks out of ten?

As a picket today, how would you

Hon, they're all tens. All of them.

Would you say ten out of ten

as well, Jacob? Yeah, God did this,

therefore it's perfect.

Does everything get ten out of ten?

Yeah. Thank God

for all of his judgments.

Not one word falls to the ground.

They're not gonna have

Not one word falls to the ground.

They're not gonna have

Not one word falls to the ground.

'where most of the 70 or so

churchgoers live.'

Not one word falls to the ground.

So this is the centre

of the headquarters right here?

You can call it that. What

would you call it? My back yard.

You don't live communally with the

other members of the church? No.

Where does Pastor Phelps,

the patriarch, live?

On that second floor. Up there?

In that building you've got

the house part to this side

and the church part to that side.

the house part to this side

for the children.

Have you wondered if you might be

part of a cult? What do you have

to be to qualify as a cult?

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