In Memoriam: Rev. Frederick Waldron Phelps Sr., 1929-2014

Your Humble Correspondent, like many who care about social justice and equality for all under the law, has been of two minds in rather bitter conflict about the news of the passing of Rev. Fred Phelps, notorious founder, pastor and paterfamilias of Topeka, Kansas' Westboro Baptist Church, at the age of 84 of what so far has only been described as "natural causes" after a long illness and hospitalization.

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