Sweden The legal actions taken by the Swedish royal family is according to the article in SvD not for his comments about Sweden in general but for his comments about the royal family per se and then especially his comments about princess Madeleine claiming she being indecent Out of curiosity does anyone know what these creatures I won t have them in the same category as us humans at WBC make of the United Nations I can imagine they ll hate it as they seem to hate everything in the universe but it would be interesting to know I completely agree with the guy above me but as this is an encyclopedia why do we have to start an article about a schurch off with hate group Perhaps because these are a group of people who rejoyce when thousands of children die in terrible tragedies and come to funerals to yell vial things at the loved ones of the people that fought for their rights What the hell should we start it off with This is a local church that has very good after school programs Hatred of Islam and muslims however despicable is not racism and neither is hatred of Catholics or Catholicism In general the racism section is pretty weak There is plenty bad to be said about Phelps without bringing the allegation that he uses the word nigger Nice work Much better I removed the NPOV tag This article could be accused of not quite attaining NPOV but it is clear that the writers have made an attempt to see this ridiculous crusade from both sides that is nothing short of heroic Patrick Beverley 15 August 2005 Former Members of Westboro Baptist Church The article has been updated with the following George Stutzman Theresa Davis Chris Davis Karl Hockenbarger Bill Hockenbarger and his wife James Hockenbarger and Joshua Phelps Roper are no longer members of the Westboro Baptist Church Where did this information come from The Hockenbargers have been members of the church for a long time I believe Chris Davis is married to Rebekah Phelps Davis one of Fred Phelps children His leaving the church would mean that he and Rebekah are no longer together Joshua is one of the children of church spokesperson Shirley Phelps Roper His leaving would probably mean that he no longer has a relationship with his parents As Dorothea Bird once said If you re in you re in If you re out you re out Hate group Any chance of this article having a further early emphasis on it being a recognised hate group Lies The westboro baptist CULT disgrace me They hate catholics because they aparantly abuse children and are homosexuals This is absolute lies and heavily offensive The fact that they make up so much lies and how there actions are contradicted within the bible should be given more attention Anyone agree Appearance I remember an appearance by a woman and her children on the Howard Stern show they were members of the Westboro Church and in the few minutes I watched one thing that the woman said struck me as an interesting point I don t hate fags God hates fags or something to that effect And yes Fred Phelps mentioned this subject in an April 2003 interview with BlackTable com Here s the URL 08 56 3 Dec 2004 UTC Article structure I started some sections to give the article more structure and made other indicated changes 08 15 6 Dec 2004 UTC Comment On a similar note should we change references to this group from church to organization I understand the name is Westboro Baptist Church however for accuracy sake they are not really a church This church praises dead Swedes A friend gave me this Copy and paste this link in to your webbrowser otherwise it won t work I don t know of its validity If somebody want to add this to the article go ahead If you can t download the image It s basically a flier by the church that praises the presumed 2000 deaths of Swedes in the recent asian tsunami As a Swedish citizen I find it highly offensive that goes beyond words so it would be impossible for me to write an unbiased addition to the article regarding this Thanks 11 29 4 Jan 2005 UTC Criticism section should be expanded further I added a bit to it