I live in Topeka, KS. While I love my community, the one thing I detest about living here is Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. If you aren't familiar with their name - these are the people that picket funerals with their hate signs targeting homosexuality.

Recently someone bought the house across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church compound. Today they painted it rainbow, just like the gay pride flag. it is very colorful, and awesome.

It will now the be the first thing the phelps will see when they come and go!

I am sorry for crashing this section of the forum when I am straight..,but it made my day and I figured some in here might get a little joy, too!

Hahaha!!! That's awesome.

I despise those people.

Thank you!!! I don't understand why their not a registered hate group. I bet they have tons of guns in their compound! Thank god for those brave people who bought the house they should make it a gay center for run away teens lol

I saw a few articles about the house & the guy who bought it. Pretty cool move. Nice to see the negativity that Westboro puts into the world be balanced out with some positivity.

I would genuinely find it painful and frightening to have those people in my neighborhood. I'm sorry you have to suffer them, but the gesture of the house did make me smile . A quiet hero at work! What a great home owner!!

We get those nazi/KKK/Obama people outside of our house on occasion because we are across the street from the post office. They used to set up on our side, but no matter the weather I always thought their set up was a signal for me to turn the sprinkler on . I've watered in rainstorms lol. And sometimes I have to really turn it up to get their area "well watered" but it makes me smile every time. Hate groups have no place in our world.

Thank you!!! I don't understand why their not a registered hate group. I bet they have tons of guns in their compound! Thank god for those brave people who bought the house they should make it a gay center for run away teens lol

Just an FYI...they are. SPLC has had them on their hate group watchlist for YEARS.

Pure evil.

*sticks a head through the doorway, followed by the rest of her*

Ugh, Westboro Baptist "Church"! I wish that unicorns would go fart rainbows all over their compound. Maybe if they find the end of the rainbow they can collect a pot of CLUES. They clearly need some to relieve their unremitting asininity.

*exits the room muttering something about you can teach the ignorant but you can't fix just plain STUPID*

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We get those nazi/KKK/Obama people outside of our house on occasion because we are across the street from the post office. They used to set up on our side, but no matter the weather I always thought their set up was a signal for me to turn the sprinkler on <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />. I've watered in rainstorms lol. And sometimes I have to really turn it up to get their area "well watered" but it makes me smile every time. Hate groups have no place in our world.[/quote']

Did you honestly really just group Obama supporters with nazis and kkk members are you serious?

Did you honestly really just group Obama supporters with nazis and kkk members are you serious?

And....we just lost the thread. Maybe she means Obama haters? Like...as in an Obama hate group? One can hope. I dunno.

I don't understand hate groups at all. How someone can HATE someone else they don't even know is beyond me. I have hated people before, but it's never for something they've done to me. Working in law enforcement, and before as a firefighter/emt, it's easy to lose sight of things and let hate in your heart towards certain people and their actions. I will never understand how this "Church" even acts as one, or is accepted anywhere. I will never understand the idiocy put in to a group such as this, I don't even try.

Equality House. .

I read the article yesterday, I love when Aaron purchased the place how he said some of the church members were so cordial and pleasant.......nothing like a wolf in sheepskin clothing.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

This is awesome! I'm in Iowa, which is close enough that we get lots of visits from the WBC. They protested our church a couple of years ago because we allow gay marriage and have held commitment ceremonies for years before that. While they spewed hate, we made them breakfast.

Did you honestly really just group Obama supporters with nazis and kkk members are you serious?

Since Obama is black...I think it would be safe in assuming that she meant anti-Obama.

She does live in Alaska... You know Sarah Palin?

Just saying....

Ps I love Obama! And I would love him if white, black or even Portuguese !

A couple weeks ago, 2 of Fred's grandaughters left the compound. Yay! So brave. 1 of them was still in HS, but she turned 18. He has had 3 kids who have left now, and several grandkids. A lot of people around here have a theory that Fred is actually gay. That thought makes me smile.

It is tough living here at times, because of him. We have lived here since 1998. That year my daughter went to see the Nutcracker Ballet at our Performing Arts Center. She came home and asked me, "What is a ***?" I cried. Same scenario two years later when my son went with his class. My husband and I were the youth directors at our church for 10 years, and we ran into them frequently. One time at a community event, I was having a hard time finding the church that was sponsoring. It was in the middle of a residential area. I turned around a couple times before I saw WB getting their signs out of their trunks. I parked behind them, waited till they were a few yeards in front of us, then started that way. They led me to the church, where they started getting set up for their protest.

I walked up to Shirley Phelps Roper and and said, "I just wanted to thank you."

She smiled and said, "I am not not sure why, but you are welcome."

I replied, "Well, I couldn't find this place. I drove around and around looking for it, and then I saw you guys. You led me straight here. Without you, I amy never have found it!"

She called me a ***** and a ****. That wasn't the first time..and it wasn't the last time.

I am always proud of the way Topeka rallies against them. Recently, we had two police officers killed in the line of duty. There were thousands and thousands of people that lined the entire parade route so that the Phelps couldn't protest. The funerals and memorials lasted all day, and there were people working together in shifts taking care of our law enforcement families.

She does live in Alaska... You know Sarah Palin?

Just saying....

Ps I love Obama! And I would love him if white, black or even Portuguese !

I won't hold that against you. I would like him better if my husband wasn't getting ready to lose his job.

I won't hold that against you. I would like him better if my husband wasn't getting ready to lose his job.

Ok off of politics and back to a safe topic RELIGION!!

Yes I hate those Westboro baptist church people!