The Reverend Fred Phelps

In my book, I discuss how Christianity and Hate can cross each other's pass. The Reverend Fred Phelps is a former Baptist Minister who converted to a strict doctrine of hate. Consider the following quote regarding Matthew Shepperd's documentary on his death.

The Laramie Project is a tawdry bit of banal fag melodrama – sordid, cheap, unaffecting, drearily predictable – without the least artistic or literary merit or redeeming social value. Indeed, its only purpose is to promote sinful, soul-damning sodomy by playing on the sick, maudlin emotions of doomed, godless America and thereby to recruit ill-bred teenagers to lives of sin, shame, disease, death and hell.

^{In order for Civil Rights to take the next step forward, the US needs to adopt legislation that ends non profit status for churches that have policies of hate.}

While Fred Phelps is an example of hate that is extreme, we need to discuss mainstream doctrines that exclude some from the table of equity.