Westboro Baptist church and the "right wing"
As usual, the media is labeling Fred Phelps as "right wing." This is not true. Here is an article that establishes Westboro Baptist Church's left wing bona fides. It's despicable that every time something bad happens associated with nasty signs, racism, homophobia, etc., the press (and Bill O'Reilly) assumes that it is right wing, even though it's often some left winger pretending to be a right wing extremist. Read more here about out; follow the links for background info. WBC IS left wing!
But Phelps isn't “far right.” According to Wikipedia and Kansas Voter View, he's a registered Democrat who ran in five Kansas Democratic primaries, including governor. He also reportedly campaigned for then-Sen. Al Gore in the 1988 presidential campaign (these photos seem to back this up), culminating in invitations to both Clinton-Gore inaugurations, although that support waned as Clinton-Gore promoted gay rights.
Now the case with the fourth circuit court of appeals telling the fallen Marine's father Al Snyder to pay the bills of the WBC for having brought the lawsuit has bubbled up. It is strange that the appeals court went ahead and ruled that Mr. Snyder should have to pay this, even though the Supreme Court agreed to hear this case. Snyder won his case, was awarded millions from WBC, but the decision was reversed by the appeals court. What in the heck is the purpose of a trial, one has to ask?
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