Blame it on the stomach virus I was suffering, but yesterday some perverse impulse (could it be Satan?) made me watch “Fall from Grace,”  the 2007 documentary about the Fred Phelps family and the Westboro Baptist Church. The documentary does a good job showing this bizarre tribal grouping in Topeka that has dedicated itself to spreading the message that Jesus hates you because you’re gay (or you’re a soldier or you’re Scandinavian or you’re Muslim or you’re anyone who is not a Phelps).

The Westboro Baptist Church has many websites, but their main one is godhatesfags.com. Other sites include GodHatesIslam, GodHatestheMedia, and GodHatestheWorld. At all of these sites, you can learn that God is angry, really really angry and that Jesus does NOT love everyone. Most importantly, you can learn that it is really much too late to repent since we are doomed as a nation and a world and God…

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