This weekend, Fred Phelps is coming to Denver for a whirlwind tour of bile, vitriol, hate, and potty-mouth antics. And I couldn't be happier.

Fred Phelps, in case you didn't know, is the religious extremist version of the professional accident victim. He and his children and their demon spawn make a living off of the first amendment lawsuits they file when police departments, city councils, and legislatures cross the line of restricting Phelps's free speech rights. The Phelps klan drive around the country staging "protests" at the funerals of gay people, in front of state houses and city buildings, and, more recently, the funerals of soldiers.

This weekend he'll be staging appearances at the state legislature, at the Matt Shepard Foundation dinner, and at a handful of churches around the city. "God hates Matt Shepard and is now tormenting him with fire brimstone in Hell, his mother Judy and all associated with the Foundation - all of whom will eventually join Matt in Hell," says his press release. "This evil witch raised her son for the devil and Hell," he says of Judy Shepard.

Why am I so happy?

Apparently completely unbeknownst to Phelps, the state legislature is currently considering the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Responsibilities referendum this week. Today, in fact, it is scheduled for a vote in the House Appropriations Committee, and could see passage on the House and Senate floor as early as next week. What better PR could gay and lesbian couples get in terms of the discrimination we face than Fred Phelps picketing the legislature because "God hates fags?" I wouldn't be surprised if even some of the more fundamentalist legislators vote in our favor just to distance themselves from Phelps's hate brigade standing outside.

Here's the schedule for the Phelps hate brigade, straight from the horse's ass. My advice if you are going to be present (I'll see him at least three times--he's picketing the Matt Shepard dinner, the legislature, and my church) is to keep a healthy distance (you really do not want to be sued--and they will, that's how they fund their hate brigade), but bring your digital camera, video camera, or audio recorder and record these people. Then send your recordings to Jen at ProgressNow for later compilation.

03/23/2006
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Denver, CO
Colorado Statehouse 200 E. Colfax Ave.
Not to be outdone by the United States Taliban, and the other 24 states who have introduced or passed laws against those that fear and love God, Colorado has jumped on the bandwagon to outlaw gospel preaching. It wasn't enough for them to pass SJR 04-034 which resolves "That Reverend Phelps' message and those similar to it are not welcome in our state." Now they want to outlaw that message all together. They are attempting to shred the Constitution, and over what? A handful of people standing on a public sidewalk with signs in their hands. The Colorado Taliban hates God, and hates his judgments. Passing a law won?t bring those dead soldiers back to life!

03/23/2006
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Denver, CO
US Senator Ken Salazar's Office
2300 15th St.
US Senator Ken Salazar, who raised his right hand, and swore to uphold the Constitution, has taken it upon himself to attempt to silence the message of the Living God. Ken doesn't like the words we say so therefore they must go! It makes one wonder if Ken even knows what the First Amendment says. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." What is it about this that Ken doesn't understand? He has no business messing, in his official capacity, in matters of religion. The blood of all the dead soldiers is on Ken's hands! He, as a member of the government, has a platform to warn this nation that you can't live your life any way you want to and expect to go to Heaven. Does he use it? No, he attacks the only people who do warn their neighbour as they are commanded by God to do. Shame on Ken!!!!


03/25/2006
5:15 PM - 7:00 PM
Denver, CO
Westin Tabor Center
1672 Lawrence Street
We draw attention once again that America's favorite idol is no god. Here is the truth about Matt Shepard. His parents turned him over to the fags to raise and molest in strange lands. He became a filthy pervert at their insistence. They failed him AND God in performing their Deut. 6:1-9 duty! So one find day in October, 1998, he went trolling for drugs and strange flesh in a bar. He found some equally perverse freaks and got into their vehicle with them and when the drug deal went south, he ended up dead! NOW - as if that were not bad enough, Dennis and Judy Shepard fill their coffers - filthy lucre we are discussing here - off of his back. AND, as an added bonus, they are given the opportunity to assist in the sodomizing of the nation! Those beasts are not content to send their own child to hell, they want ALL the children of America to land there as well. SO - while they are raking in the cash inside, Wisdom will be crying aloud in the streets warning them that the destroyer of Sodom is NOT dead, but instead is on the way and he is raging mad!

03/26/2006
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Lakewood , CO
Bear Valley Southern Baptist Church
10001 W. Jewell Ave.
We will be at this Southern Baptist Church dog kennel because they are so much worse then the perverts that call themselves open and tolerant and accepting of fags and their ilk - these lying freaks say out of one side of their mouth that sodomy is a sin and out of the other - God loves everyone! WHAT?? Listen up you liars - Eze 13:22 Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: Mal 2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment? You better read Jeremiah 23 and for that matter read the entire Bible EVERY DAY! And STOP lying and blaspheming God! He will repay you to your face.

03/26/2006
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Englewood, CO
All Souls Catholic Church
4950 S. Logan Street
The Catholic church is known for three things: pedophiles, pandering perverts, and pagan idol worship. 'Priests rape boys' is an air-tight, three word case against the Catholic church. The Catholic Church is the largest, most well-funded and organized pedophile group in the history of man (for more info, see www.priestsrapeboys.com). The pope, knowing about and supporting the abominable activities of these fag priests, split Hell wide open when he quit this earth on April 2, 2005. WBC's message to all Catholics: RUN as fast as you can from that perverted pedophile machine, or you will join the pope, burning in Hell for all eternity!

03/26/2006
08:45 AM - 09:15 AM
Englewood, CO
Colorado Community Church
3651 S. Colorado Blvd.
Ro 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Colorado Community Church pretends to preach the gospel of Christ, but is in reality ashamed of it. Rather than preach the whole word of God, warning their fellow man that their sins are taking them to Hell, and teaching their members to strive against sin, they teach that all you have to do is say that you are ?living a lifestyle consistent with that of a fully devoted follower of Christ.? What does that mean? The only mention they make of any sin (and they still don?t call it a sin) is that they would ?request you postpone membership? if you are living together outside of marriage. However, it?s perfectly okay to be divorced and remarried. Mt. 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. In other words, as long as the money keeps coming in, they?ll keep telling you it?s okay to live your life any way you want to.

03/26/2006
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Lakewood, CO
Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church
1985 Miller Street
The Catholic church is known for three things: pedophiles, pandering perverts, and pagan idol worship. 'Priests rape boys' is an air-tight, three word case against the Catholic church. The Catholic Church is the largest, most well-funded and organized pedophile group in the history of man (for more info, see www.priestsrapeboys.com). The pope, knowing about and supporting the abominable activities of these fag priests, split Hell wide open when he quit this earth on April 2, 2005. WBC's message to all Catholics: RUN as fast as you can from that perverted pedophile machine, or you will join the pope, burning in Hell for all eternity!

03/26/2006
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Lakewood, CO
Mile Hi Church of Religious Science
9079 Alameda Avenue
These people don't even pretend to care what the Bible says. They deny Christ-they say he was the "great teacher", but he didn't die for the remission of sins, they don't believe there is such a thing as sin, Hell, or the devil, and they don't believe that God is vengeful. WHAT!! How can you claim to believe the Bible and say these things? Do they even crack a Bible? They could at least be honest with their name and call themselves the Mile Hi Whorehouse (or something similar), because as long as you keep paying, they'll keep on telling you that you can live your life anyway you want to and still go to Heaven when you die.

03/26/2006
09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Englewood , CO
Denver First Church of the Nazarene
3800 E. Hampden Avenue
The Nazarene church is full of hypocrites; on the one hand, they claim to encourage people to obey God, while on the other they do everything in their power to enable sin. One passage that applies is Ezekiel 13:22 "Because with lies ye have... strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life." "God loves everyone" is a lie from the pit of Hell, and all who subscribe to such lies are servants of sin and Satan and are on the slippery slope to hell.

03/26/2006
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Lakewood , CO
St. Joseph Episcopal Church
11202 W. Jewell Avenue
You perverts that call yourselves Episcopalians are going straight to hell! God said that V. Gene Robinson was an abomination. You call him a Bishop. Now - PAY ATTENTION: 1Ti 3:2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach; V. Gene Robinson HAS a wife - he sloughed her off so he could have sex with a man - HE DOES NOT QUALIFY to be a bishop you idiots! You are a partaker of another mans sins and every time you darken the door to that whore house and give them ONE DIME, you are equally guilty of the filthy deeds of V. Gene Robinson and God will repay you to your face in this life AND the next! You all are responsible for EACH and EVERY dead soldier!

03/26/2006
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Englewood, CO
First Plymouth Congregational Church
3501 S. Colorado Blvd.
At least the UCC churches are honest. You don't have to look far to see what they're about. This particular dog kennel is not only "Open and Affirming" (meaning you can engage in any sexual perversion you want and they'll say it's okay), but also a "Whole Earth Church" (meaning they worship the creature rather than the creator). Their "Associate Minister" is Rev. Jane Anne Ferguson. What part of 1Ti 2:12 But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence, don't they understand? No women preachers!!!

03/26/2006
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Englewood, CO
Colorado Community Church
3651 S. Colorado Blvd.
Ro 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Colorado Community Church pretends to preach the gospel of Christ, but is in reality ashamed of it. Rather than preach the whole word of God, warning their fellow man that their sins are taking them to Hell, and teaching their members to strive against sin, they teach that all you have to do is say that you are living a lifestyle consistent with that of a fully devoted follower of Christ. What does that mean? The only mention they make of any sin (and they still don't call it a sin) is that they would 'request you postpone membership' if you are living together outside of marriage. However, it's perfectly okay to be divorced and remarried. Mt. 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery. In other words, as long as the money keeps coming in, they'll keep telling you it's okay to live your life any way you want to.

03/26/2006
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Englewood, CO
All Souls Catholic Church
4950 S. Logan Street
The Catholic church is known for three things: pedophiles, pandering perverts, and pagan idol worship. 'Priests rape boys' is an air-tight, three word case against the Catholic church. The Catholic Church is the largest, most well-funded and organized pedophile group in the history of man (for more info, see www.priestsrapeboys.com). The pope, knowing about and supporting the abominable activities of these fag priests, split Hell wide open when he quit this earth on April 2, 2005. WBC's message to all Catholics: RUN as fast as you can from that perverted pedophile machine, or you will join the pope, burning in Hell for all eternity!