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I had no idea this was a family church, sadly the first thing that came to my mind when watching this video was omg this is just another typical case of bad parenting. Tbh living in the north east i'm really not exposed to anything like this but it does paint a clear picture to me of how someone like George Bush could be elected president and why Iraq got Shock & Awed...smh
To confuse matters even further RA Fred Phelps was a notable civil rights lawyer before he launched himself into this craziness.
Civil rights cases
Phelps earned a law degree from Washburn University in 1964, and founded the Phelps Chartered law firm.[12] The first notable cases were related to civil rights. "I systematically brought down the Jim Crow laws of this town," he claims.[5] Phelps' daughter was quoted as saying, "We took on the Jim Crow establishment, and Kansas did not take that sitting down. They used to shoot our car windows out, screaming we were nigger lovers," and that the Phelps law firm made up one-third of the state's federal docket of civil rights cases.[13]
Phelps took cases on behalf of African-American clients alleging racial discrimination by school systems, and a predominantly black American Legion post which had been raided by police, alleging racially based police abuse.[14] Phelps' law firm obtained settlements for some clients.[15] Phelps also sued President Ronald Reagan over Reagan's appointment of a U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, alleging this violated separation of church and state. The case was dismissed by the U.S. district court.[15][16] Phelps' law firm, staffed by himself and family members also represented non-white Kansans in discrimination actions against Kansas City Power and Light, Southwestern Bell, and the Topeka City Attorney, and represented two female professors alleging discrimination in Kansas universities.[13]
In the 1980s, Phelps received awards from the Greater Kansas City Chapter of Blacks in Government and the Bonner Springs branch of the NAACP, for his work on behalf of black clients.
Go try to square that circle eh?