Photo by Jay SoldnerShirley Phelps-Roper -- the mouthpiece of Topeka's gay hating, soldier funeral picketing Westboro Baptist Church -- can be prosecuted for desecrating a flag in Nebraska, a Sarpy County judge ruled yesterday. The judge rejected Phelps' challenge to Nebraska's flag statute, the Associated Press reports. In June 2007, Phelps-Roper was arrested for allowing her 10-year-old son Jonah to stand on a United States flag while picketing a soldier's funeral. Shirley and the fam are sche
Courtesy of the Westboro Baptist ChurchYesterday, Shirley Phelps-Roper was riding on the high of Sean Penn's derision. She was fresh off the plane. Her voice was hoarse. A fire truck was outside the Westboro Baptist Church (crank call). I caught her in the midst of a flurry. The night before, Phelps-Roper and the members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church picketed the Academy Awards. They offended Sean Penn so much that the actor mentioned them in his speech accepting the best actor award.
Shirley Phelps-RoperAfter reading way too much into this field report on the official blog of Topkea's Westboro Baptist Church, several bloggers -- here, here and here -- wondered if the Phelps family should be placed on suicide watch, wondering if they were a glass of Kool Aid or a set of matching Nikes away from their eternal reward. Uh, no. "I say first -- this is wishful thinking and standard slander," Shirley Phelps-Roper tells The Pitch in an e-mail. "It means nothing." Phelps-Roper says W
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
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'
