The Most Hated Family in America Page #4

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right, doesn't make it a fact.

The world calls it weird. I don't

care. The world hates us... Hello?

'The next morning I was with Megan.

'Phelps family members are expected

to hold mainstream jobs and give

10% of their income to the church.

'Many work as lawyers and Megan

hoped to follow in that tradition.'

The university you go to.

Yes. Yes, it is. It's lovely.

Good stuff. Totally.

Do you want to be a lawyer as well?

Yes. Like your aunts and uncles.

Yeah. I'm the only one in my

generation that wants to be a lawyer.

'By now the church members had

learned a little about my life

'and they knew I'd had a child

with my partner out of wedlock,

which put me in the firing line.'

Do you like going to the pickets?

Yeah. Are you kidding?

It must get old, though.

You don't get tired

of pursuing your sins and your lust.

Do I? I say you don't. Don't I?

You keep doing it! Me, specifically?

You OR anybody else.

Yeah. Are you kidding?

You OR anybody else.

You serve your lust,

I serve my God.

So should I be killed for having

extra-marital intercourse?

According to our code? Yeah.

I'm not sure. I think so.

I know adultery is. Wow.

And homosexuality was.

You want to see me killed for that.

I want to tell you the truth.

This is interesting.

This is where you go to college.

Yes. You have no friends here? No.

I have acquaintances.

They're not my friends.

Do you have acquaintances you like?

On a humanistic level?

That are friendly? Yeah.

Any guys? Yes.

What do you want me to say?

If you saw a guy in one of your

classes and thought he seemed nice

or had potential,

and he said, "Want to get a coffee?"

what would you do? It has happened.

I said, "Sorry, I'm busy."

Why? I have other things to do.

What was his name?

I don't even remember. You do.

Yeah, he was... What? Robert.

Robert? Robert. I think.

Is that someone you know? No. He

looks like the guy who asked me out.

It's kind of gooey, isn't it?

But I know young women

sometimes think about these things.

Most women also have...

a whole lot of lust and fornication

and do a lot of things we don't do.

Why put it like that?

Why not say "make love"?

Cos you're trying to make it seem

like something it isn't.

That's not what you're doing.

Cos you're trying to make it seem

That's not what you're doing.

How do you mean?

Get married. You seriously wouldn't

mind if you never got married

and never experienced

everything that represents? No.

It shakes it up

when there's more than one!

'And so my days at the church

wore on. I could feel myself

being absorbed into the family.'

Ahh!

'almost as though their bond with

each other had been strengthened by

the hostility of the outside world.

What did you say?

I said, "Are you kidding me?!

Who's going to marry US?"

'And it was easy to become

desensitised to their message

'and how provocative it really is.'

See, they covered their licence

plates. I don't know what they were

up to. Did they hit somebody?

Is he OK?

plates. I don't know what they were

Is he OK?

I'm sorry, hon.

They had the licence plate down.

You all right, honey?

Hey, bud. You got it all over you.

Hey, bud, I'm sorry.

I knew they had done something.

I am so sorry.

You want to go talk to your daddy?

Hey, hey, you want your sign?

Let me wipe that off of you, OK?

I'm sorry. Megan, can you...?

They are such cowards.

Who would hit a child?

Who would do that?

It looks like here, Tim.

I know... See that?

His eyes.

Do you see that colour?

That's what was in that cup.

It obviously got around on him.

It looks like here, Tim.

It obviously got around on him.

'Seeing seven-year-old Elisha

get hit by a drink was a reminder

'that among the victims of

the Phelps were their own children.

'It was Sunday and I'd been invited

along to a church service. It would

be another chance to meet the pastor

'and maybe have an interview. But

first I had an appointment to help

with chores around the homestead.'

Do you see much of Gramps?

Sometimes on Monday and Tuesday.

I haven't seen that much of him.

Do you see much of Gramps?

'that among the victims of

I haven't seen that much of him.

I think he's gotten tired

of you guys.

How can he be tired of us?

You and your impertinent questions.

He doesn't have much patience

for people asking a bunch

of questions that aren't relevant.

You know, when we were at your house

and you said I was going to Hell,

Thinking on those things,

it brings me pleasure to think that

the Lord will vindicate His people,

He will carry out His wrath

because He is perfect.

It doesn't make me happy

to think of you burning in Hell. OK.

Does that make me a better person?

No! You know God

because He sends the wicked to Hell

That's comforting to think on.

Why couldn't you feel sad

that I was going to Hell? Because

it's according to God's will.

So you rejoice in all his judgments?

Exactly. Very good point.

If you got run over by a car,

would your dad be pleased?

If you got run over by a car,

Really? Really. I'm serious.

And we have to move on.

That's crazy.

In your thinking it's crazy.

If you got run over by a car,

Let's go. Come on.

CONGREGATION SING

'A little later, I joined

the rest of the church members

in the family chapel

'A little later, I joined

# He will be waiting for me

'A little later, I joined

# After that day is through. #

Is it true that if I do something

wrong, Gramps could go loco?

He'll just tell you not to do it.

Would it be embarrassing for him?

For you. Why? There's no experience

quite like it.

of one of Gramps' services.'

Is it true that if I do something

Same-sex marriage,

by any name,

civil union or otherwise,

is the ultimate smash-mouth,

in-your-face insult

to God Almighty.

You think He's gonna let England

and America get by with it?

God Almighty has not joined fags

in holy wedlock.

civil union or otherwise,

God no longer keeps America safe.

America's doomed.

Getting the pants beat off of us

to God Almighty.

God is now America's terrorist.

That's who Bush is fighting.

to God Almighty.

You tweaked His nose, you jackass!

You tweaked His nose!

God put it in your wicked heart

to start that war!

That's the message we got at the

funerals of these dead soldiers.

God duped you

into starting a war

so He could punish you

Any preacher preaching

in any other way is a lying,

It's almost 18 months now

and this siege has got people

eating their babies.

God himself duped Bush

into a no-win war

and He did that by the technique

of putting a lying spirit in the

mouth of all his trusted advisers.

To punish America.

At least two million.

Maybe three or four million.

Pastor, would there be five minutes

for a couple of questions?

Well, uh... Yeah, five minutes.

Shoot. OK.

I was struck by your preaching.

It was as if you feel we are living

in a time of Biblical prophecy.

Is that accurate? No, it's not.

I don't know how to deal

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