Revelations from inside the house of hate!
One of of Fred Phelps, the pastor of Westboro Baptist Church, sons has claimed that his father beat his family until they bled. Nate Phelps, has been estranged from his family for more than 30 years, and is now writing a book about his experiences growing up in the Kansas church of hate.
Remember this is the church that believes every US soldier’s deaths abroad are caused by God as a punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality. They regularly picket and protest at soldiers’ funerals with placards declaring ‘God hates fags’ ‘America is Doomed’.
Speaking to HLN’s Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell, Phelps, who is the family’s seventh son of 13 children, claimed his father abused his children and wife.
“He used his fists. He used his knees and he used … the handle of a mattock [a pick-like digging tool]. He used that in such a way that it split the skin on the back of the kid’s legs so they bled. If they want to call that discipline, that’s fine. But I call it abuse,”
Phelps said. He also said that Fred Phelps beat his wife, although not with the mattock.
His sister, Westboro spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper, refuted the claims as “lies”.
She said: “Nothing he can say will change the fact that God hates fags and their enablers and therefore God hates America and America is doomed.
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