Subject: Fred Phelps

• Dude Had It Coming

  February 27, 2007

• The Fred Phelps British Invasion

  April 30, 2007

• Michael Jackson, Meet Fred Phelps

  May 18, 2007

• Etheridge Takes On the Phelps

  October 9, 2007

• Shirley Phelps-Roper Says She's Not Done

  November 1, 2007

• Are you a Phag for Phelps?

  January 21, 2008

• Hundreds Picket Phelps Family

  March 31, 2008

• Fred Phelps Thanks God for Killing Tim Russert

  June 16, 2008

• George Carlin in Hell, Phelps-Roper Says

  June 24, 2008

• Phelps Clan Gets Competitor in Christian Hate

  August 5, 2008

• Phelps family's black sheep now a cab-driving atheist

  October 31, 2008

• Mail

  March 9, 2000

• Stealing Time: Found, one swastika patch

  M.Toast finds a swastika patch in a parking lot at 75th and Wornall. Awesome thought of the day: "Maybe I should post it on Craig's List under Lost and Found."

  December 29, 2008

• Fred Phelps' off-Broadway debut

  May 25, 2000

• Kansas City Strip

  September 20, 2001

• Letters

  October 11, 2001

• Best Response to Fred Phelps

  October 18, 2001

• Coffee Clash

  December 26, 2002

• Windows smashed at ACLU office

  Last Thursday, someone threw a "big ol' landscaping rock" through a set of glass doors at the American Civil Liberties Union's Kansas City office. ACLU Executive Dan Winter sent out an e-mail, saying the attack was the second in three weeks. I called Winter this morning to see why someone would chuck a rock through his front door. Winter told me that he thought the vandalism was planned given the type of rock thrown. But he has no idea who hurled the rock.  "It may be Phelps related," Winte

  February 10, 2009

• Daily Briefs in Brief: God Hates Prams

  All the Platinum Concubines That's Fit to Spank: OHNO, the Ochs-Sulzberger family trust, which owns 19 percent of the common shares in the New York Times Co., voted to suspend its quarterly dividend due to the increasingly grim environment for the kinds of media that people actually have to pay for using "cash-money," as we corn-shucking Midwest crackers like to say around our enormous, juicy wads of loose-leaf tobacco. The Sulzberger kids should rip a page out of the book of financial writer a

  February 20, 2009

• Spit Fire

  July 29, 2004

• Sean Penn wants Fred Phelps and family to "turn in their hate cards"

  I didn't watch the Academy Awards last night. OK, I did for like five minutes (too long). I tuned in just in time to see the "commie, homo-loving sons-of-guns" hand Sean Penn the best actor award for his role in Milk. I was too busy texting "bullshit" to Peter Rugg -- I mean, did you see The Wrestler? -- to listen to Penn's acceptance speech. I should have. He gave a shout-out to America's most hated family, the members of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church, who were picketing the Academy Awar

  February 23, 2009

• Non-Prophet

  March 17, 2005

• Elton John

  April 28, 2005

• Grave Matter

  February 23, 2006

• Anita Bryant is alive ... and up to her old tricks

  Like Satan, Anita Bryant keeps coming back.Some of y'all are, sadly, too young to remember the woman who might be the country's original celebrity right-winger -- a milder, sunnier and way-hotter precursor to Fred Phelps. Younguns who've seen the movie might recognize her as one of the villains in the Harvey Milk story. But those of us who are a certain age -- old enough to remember her impossible-to-forget commercials for Florida Orange Juice -- know the former Miss Oklahoma (and second runner-

  March 26, 2009

• Slim for Life

  November 16, 2006

• Sick Jokes

  July 24, 2008

• Gay Power in Numbers

  March 27, 2008

• KC Sex: The Quiz

  Are you more of a Liberty Memorial or a Hairy Truman?

  February 8, 2007

• Letters from the week of 12-14-2006

  December 14, 2006

• Dead to Fred

  November 9, 2006

• The New Fred

  November 2, 2006

• Independence Daze

  Letters from the week of

  May 11, 2006

• War Game

  February 9, 2006

• I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House

  September 15, 2005

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  June 2, 2005

• Twisted Sister

  Letters from the week of April 8, 2004

  April 8, 2004

• Jesus of the Weak

  Hallmark finds a hottie Jesus to help it Focus on the Family.

  June 27, 2002

• Letters

  Letters from the week of October 4, 2001

  October 4, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of May 24, 2001

  May 24, 2001

• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee

  The fourth annual Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee takes over the town April 1 through 9.

  March 30, 2000

• Gray matter

  Local filmmaker Tim DePaepe documents the lifestyle of gays in Kansas -- and those who disapprove -- in Shades of Gray.

  March 30, 2000

• Michael Savage joins Phelps family on list of those banned from Britain

  United Kingdom Home Secretary Jacqui Smith revealed yesterday the names of 16 people barred from visiting Great Britain. The latest to join the list: conservative talk show host Michael Savage, who joins Shirley Phelps-RoperTopeka's own gay hating preacher Fred Phelps and daughter/disciple Shirley Phelps-Roper. The news of the ban on Phelps and daughter came out back in February but the Savage angle gave it new life. Of the ban on the Phelps family, Smith told The Independent: "If people have so

  May 6, 2009

• Sean Tevis catches Phelps family's anti-Semitic, funeral-crashing antics

  Fred Phelps' funeral-crashing flock showed up in Overland Park Monday for a bit of anti-Semitism, and they crossed paths with the shaman of stick-figure theater, Sean Tevis, who turned the whole thing into a live-action story -- and it even has (sort of) a happy ending.

  July 14, 2009

• Sony Charges Westboro Baptist Church With Copyright Infringement

  Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, home of Pastor Fred Phelps and the "God Hates Fags Campaign," has been hit with copyright infringement from Sony/ATV Music. In a letter to the church, Sony lawyer Peter Brodsky states that a video on the church's website "constitutes a serious infringement of Sony's copyright." That video is "Hey Jews," the Beatles' hit written as a claim that the Jews are evil reprobates who killed Christ and have yet to repent. The letter from Brodsky goes on to paint "Hey J

  August 28, 2009

• Kevin Smith's next film might be inspired by Fred Phelps

  ​Kevin Smith's next film might just be his horror flick inspired by Topeka's anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps. In an interview with Sci-Fi Wire, Smith says his long-anticipated first horror film Red State might just be up next. Sounds like there was a communication breakdown between Smith and producer Jon Gordon. Smith wanted to secure the money for the film first. But Gordon wanted to get the cast first. "I keep saying we don't have the money yet," Smith said. "Jon Gordon's just like, 'We haven'

  September 9, 2009

• This week's Pitch and 30 things we learned this week

  ​This week's Pitch is on the street and so is Darlene White, the subject of Casey Lyons' feature, "The Oldest Professional." White sells $5 blow jobs so she can buy $20 rocks of crack. She claims she was once lit on fire by a John. It's a hard life out there. Also, Martin looks at the dog park mess. Harper and Gintowt preview the Crossroads Music Fest (so does the Buckle Bunny). Ferruzza reviews Zest, and Scherstuhl tells you whether you should see L'Histoire d"Amour.In other news:1. KCK Commu

  September 11, 2009

• Best Of Extra: The 'samurai guy in Westport'

  Rand Al Thor​You guys picked the largest mayor in the land Mark Funkhouser as the the Best Anti-hero Of 2009 in The Pitch's Best Of 2009 edition.  A fair share of you also voted for the mayor's wife, Gloria Squitiro. Also getting votes, everyone from Fred Phelps to Larry Johnson to Larry Moore (Larry Moore?) to Spider-Man. We'll tell a little more about one of the vote getters later today, but one really struck me: "samurai guy in Westport."I gotta believe that the votes for samurai guy w

  October 5, 2009

• Cancer: Cured! McCarthy: Crucified! Jews: Demonic! Studies in Crap digs up Wichita's The Defender

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ The Defender Magazine Date: Issues from January, February and September, 1955 Publisher: Defenders of the Christian Faith, Wichita, Kansas The Cover Promises: In the great devolution of lunatic Kansas preachers, the missing link between William Jennings Bryan and Fred Phelps. Re

  November 5, 2009