25th August 2005
The fanatical American Baptist minister, Fred Phelps, is on his way to Sweden.
"We'll hunt down your king," he said ominously to Expressen. "It doesn't make any difference where he tries to hide."
Phelps' hatred of the royal family and all things Swedish is linked directly to his equally virulent hatred of homosexuals. He praises homophobic crimes, including murder. When controversial Swedish minister, Åke Green, was convicted of inciting hatred of homosexuals following an anti-gay sermon, Phelps saw red and turned his attention to Sweden.
"You're doomed to spend eternity in hell," he continued. "All you Swedes and your Swedish king and his family."
The minister and twenty members of his congregation from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, are planning to come to Sweden at the beginning of September. They are bringing plenty of placards in order to spread their message that Sweden is the cradle of all evil and that the king rules a nation of sodomites.
King Carl Gustaf is their primary target.
"Your king represents your doomed country and we'll find him wherever he may be."
Phelps claims that Sweden deserved to suffer in the Boxing Day tsunami catastrophe in southern Asia and has designed a monument to 'celebrate' the deaths of over 500 Swedes in Thailand.
The royal household regards the proposed visit as a serious risk and has increased security around the king and the royal family.
"We'll be informing Säpo of this," said royal spokeswoman, Ann-Christine Jernberg.
So, should Sweden laugh, cry or take Fred Phelps seriously? Expressen columnist, Lars Lindström, is in no doubt that this is no joke.
"If he were a cartoon character, I'd laugh. But now I just feel ill. Minister Fred Phelps has such extreme views that even the Christian far right in the USA feel a bit queasy."
Lindström argues that it isn't just singled out Sweden that's exercised about Phelps, but that he attracts a lot of attention in his home country.
"Phelps has eleven lawyers fighting for his constitutional right to cast the objects of his hatred to the fires of hell. To dismiss him as a village idiot is to take the easy way out."
"With friends like Fred Phelps, Åke Green doesn't need a single enemy," concludes Lindström.
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thanks to JMHofmaRn fo this article and the following links to Fred Phelps' websites:
god hates fags
and
god hates sweden
I think my facorite argument against sweeden by the esteemed and articulate Fred Phelps can be found: HERE. where he states, and i quote:
"To persuade WBC that Sweden is a land of wholesome family values - and not the faggot Hell-hole we say it is - some Swede sent us large color photos of the royal family. It won't work!
The King looks like an anal-copulator, & his grinning kids look slutty & gay!"
"Carl XVI Gustaf
King of Sodomite Whores
You jackass Swedes just don't get it. Once you have laws to chill Bible preaching, we don't give a rat's tutu whatever else you do or say. You are drippings from the Devil's own penis - a veritable sperm bank for Satan's queers. "To me belongeth vengeance and recompence...for the day of their calamity is at hand." Deut. 32:35."
hmmm....
well...
to that i say: "vengnce is mine, sayeth the lord."
-somewhere in the bible.
loosley translated means:
Fred Phelps is a repressed polesmoking overbearing asshole who should shut the hell up and mind his own goddamned business, and further more if he touches my beloved princess yummyboobs i'm going to stab him in the face with an avil!!!
(his main site is a goldmine of horrid mediocrity in links to news article so crappy i hang my head in shame in the crapulence in which they swim!)
This post has been edited by barend: 29 August 2005 - 11:41 PM