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badstarI 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.
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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Date: 2007-04-06 06:07 pm (UTC)I'm sorta interested to see how long the church hangs together once "Gramps" passes on.
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Date: 2007-04-06 06:12 pm (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fUyJQgRuM&mode=related&search=
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Date: 2007-04-06 07:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-06 07:46 pm (UTC)(OK now I'm watching part three. Color me sucked-in!)
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Date: 2007-04-06 09:20 pm (UTC)