TOPEKA, Kan. — The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., who founded a Kansas church widely known for its protests at military funerals and its anti-gay sentiments, is in a care facility, according to a church spokesman.
Phelps, 84, is being cared for in a Shawnee County facility, Westboro Baptist Church spokesman Steve Drain said Sunday. Drain would not identify the facility.
now, this is interesting:
the WaPo article is HERENate Phelps, an estranged son of Fred Phelps, said in an e-mail to the Topeka Capital-Journal that members of Westboro have voted Fred Phelps out of the church.
Nate Phelps, who broke away from the church 37 years ago, told the newspaper that church members became concerned after the vote that his father might harm himself, and they moved him out of the church, where he and his wife had lived for years. Fred Phelps was moved into a house, where he “basically stopped eating and drinking,” Nate Phelps said.
so whats it mean when your own disciples vote you out ?
if in fact they tossed him out, and that triggered a life endangering depression, will anyone face charges ? elder abuse ?
how about after he dies ?
