Fred Phelps ONE SICK MOFO!

This ashat might qualify as the single worst human being currently on the planet

From Wikkipedia:

Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. (born November 13, 1929) is the highly controversial leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, an alleged cult based in Topeka, Kansas. The church is located in the basement of his home, which is located inside of a block-wide, fenced compound; the other houses in the compound are occupied by nine of his thirteen children (the other four children are estranged from Phelps).

Phelps claims that he is a prophet sent to tell the world of the supreme hatred of God, and that only he and the members of Westboro have any hope of going to Heaven. The group, which has roughly 100 members (90% of whom are related to Phelps through blood or marriage), is built around an anti-homosexual core theology, with much of Phelps' activities stemming from a mantra that "God Hates Fags" (which is also the name of Westboro's main website). Gay rights activists, as well as Christians of virtually every affiliation, have denounced him as a producer of anti-gay propaganda and violence-inspiring hate speech.

Okay, this is one sick group of bananas. I found their website title to be disturbing in itself but some of the "flyers" they provide for distribution at their events made me physically shake:

Judgment in West Virginia! Thank God for His Outpoured Wrath and for 12 Dead Miners.

From the Chicago Tribune:
Funeral protest ban is pushed
Downstate legislator set to introduce bill

By Charles Sheehan
Tribune staff reporter
Published January 11, 2006

Angered by a religious group's demonstrations at scores of military funerals, a state lawmaker said he will soon introduce a bill to make such protests illegal in Illinois.

Legislation to be sponsored by Rep. Brandon Phelps (D-Norris City) would make Illinois the fifth state to introduce such a bill in response to protests by members of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan.

Members of the church, led by Rev. Fred Phelps, who is not related to Brandon Phelps, have picketed dozens of funerals for soldiers killed overseas.

Followers of the church, mostly family members of Fred Phelps, say the killings of American soldiers by improvised explosive devices are a manifestation of God's wrath over homosexuality in the United States.