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badstar ([personal profile] badstar) wrote2007-04-06 01:39 pm

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I know that people are quite loathe to pay any attention to Fred Phelps and his gang or anything having to do with them. But this interview caught my eye.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6507971.stm

The interview is with Louis Theroux who spent a couple of weeks with them for a BBC documentary. It's so hard to imagine some of the thigns that he says in this interview...

They [their children] go to school; you can have normal conversations with these people. They're intelligent, high achieving, have good jobs, and they're kind, for the most part, when they're not on pickets. They're easy to communicate with and deal with too. It's just this one area - their pickets. They will even - so I'm given to understand and I have no reason to doubt it - work alongside gay people very happily in the work place. If a gay person goes along to talk to them outside the church or if a gay person even turned up to the church to attend a service, they wouldn't humiliate them or be rude to them; they'd shake their hand and welcome them in.

It looks like the documentary in question is available on Youtube. I might have to take a look at that.
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[personal profile] blaisepascal 2007-04-06 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
If you find it on YouTube, let us know.

I'm sorta interested to see how long the church hangs together once "Gramps" passes on.

[identity profile] fuego.livejournal.com 2007-04-06 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm told that this link works- though it looks incomplete. I can't check it from work, but if you try it, let me know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fUyJQgRuM&mode=related&search=

[identity profile] unprotoize.livejournal.com 2007-04-06 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep, it's all on YouTube in 7 or 8 parts, looks like it's about an hour long. I just watched part one, and I don't think I can stand to watch the rest. The journalist must have had guts of iron!

[identity profile] unprotoize.livejournal.com 2007-04-06 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to disagree with the point about how polite and kind and happy these people are off-picket..they seem like real jerks pretty much all around.

(OK now I'm watching part three. Color me sucked-in!)

[identity profile] grntserendipity.livejournal.com 2007-04-06 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Fred Phelps clan was on my campus today. It just drove my blood pressure through the roof. There was a four year old holding a sign that said "Fags Go To Hell"...who does that to their kids!??!