{"id":1710,"date":"2003-09-08T18:29:47","date_gmt":"2003-09-09T08:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/09\/fred-phelps-needs-help\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T23:34:08","slug":"fred-phelps-needs-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/08\/fred-phelps-needs-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Phelps needs help"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13402,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/bloggy.com\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001371.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251104205332\\\/https:\\\/\\\/bloggy.com\\\/mt\\\/archives\\\/001371.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 10:34:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 07:05:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 07:05:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13403,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thegofish.com\\\/archives\\\/002039.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Somehow until now Fred Phelps had managed to slip completely under my radar, but from what I&#8217;ve seen this evening, this man needs some serious help.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that today was opening day for New York&#8217;s Harvey Milk School, a high school for GLBT teens who do not feel safe going to normal public schools. The streets outside the school were filled with demonstrators &#8212; primarily many people giving their support to the kids, because Phelps had arranged his own demonstration. Phelps and his small group of &#8220;Christians&#8221; (and I use the term <em>very<\/em> loosely here) were protesting the school and its students with signs with such warm, Christian sentiments as <a href=\"http:\/\/bloggy.com\/mt\/archives\/001371.html\" title=\"Fred Phelps at Harvey Milk\">&#8220;God Hates Fags&#8221;, &#8220;Fags FDNY&#8221;, and &#8220;Thank God for Sept.\u00a011&#8221; while standing on American flags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It never ceases to amaze and sadden me the horrible things people will do in the name of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegofish.com\/archives\/002039.php\" title=\"Fred Phelps is a fucknut\">the go fish<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow until now Fred Phelps had managed to slip completely under my radar, but from what I&#8217;ve seen this evening, this man needs some serious help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}