Compassionate Conservatism: Phelps Clan Eyes Pennsylvania [View All]

[Cannikin]

(Lebanon, Pennsylvania) Anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps has applied to the city of Lebanon for permission to put up a monument condemning a gay teenager who killed himself after being taunted and bullied.

The 6-foot pink granite monument would read, in part: "In Loving Memory of Jim Wheeler, Entered Hell November 17, 1997, at age 19, A Suicide Who Defied God's Warning."

Jim Wheeler was a student at Cedar Crest High School where he was constantly harassed. The hate continued in the small community after he left school. Finally, Wheeler took his own life.

Lebanon is the latest community in which the group has proposed anti-gay monuments. Statues condemning Matthew Shepard have been rejected in Casper, Wyoming, Shepard's hometown, Topeka, and Boise, Idaho.
http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/02/020204phelpsPA.htm



And all of this done in the name of Christianity....I obviously missed a few Bible classes...I only remember the parts about love, forgiveness, and compassion...I missed the hate mongering and and celebrating going to hell. As long as the sanctity of marriage is protected, everything will be ok, right?