Elected Official: "We Need More Fred Phelps In This World!"

[Marty Mac Ver 2.0]

Jesus, I can't believe the bigotry from this guy. Please read and feel free to comment on the actual story.

Elected Official Hates Gays, Feels They Are Entitled

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by NinerDoug

I did read it, sorry for switching the hotel and gym, call it artistic license.

As for the firing, he could have made that up as well.

Accusing those you criticize of lying about mitigating circumstances, absent evidence, only serves to lessen your own position.

Dude was het up about some dude photographing his junk, he read a fake obit of a gay rights protester thinking it was real, it het him up some more, he vented on his facebook page. Stupid, low information, emotional, not necessarily evil.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by Donger

I don't like that it's called the Gulf of Mexico. It lessens it somehow. We should rename it the Gulf of Texas.

I don't know, they irritated me. The state government recently caved in and published one of those maps that puts a red dot where every gun owner lives:


I can't believe they left those islands completely defenseless.

[Baby Lee]

If people bothered to click the updated link

Originally Posted by Farrell

Vice mayor Ed Farrell explained his controversial Facebook post on Tuesday, saying he had no idea who Fred Phelps was or that the obituary Farrell posted was a fake piece from The Onion.
Read the original story here.
“We need more Fred Phelps in this world,” Farrell initially wrote on his wall. “May you rest in peace sir.”
The Maricopa Monitor attempted to contact Farrell by phone and through email Monday, hours after the City leader praised the anti-gay pastor and Westboro Baptist Church leader in a social media post that morning, but was unsuccessful.
“I had no idea who this Phelps guy was, I had no idea about the publication the Onion,” Farrell told the Monitor in a phone conversation Tuesday afternoon. “I was just simply scrolling down my news feed and saw this article.”
Initially, Farrell thought Phelps was just a Kansas-based minister, rather than the instigator of protests at U.S. soldiers’ funerals.
“I had no clue about this guy; he’s an idiot,” Farrell said. “I can’t believe that I posted what I posted…shame on me.”
A recent upsetting experience triggered the post, the vice mayor said.
It stems from a trip to Washington, D.C. for the City of Maricopa, where Farrell lobbied for capital projects such as Interstate 11 and the Santa Cruz Wash plans. One morning, as Farrell was using a shower in a hotel health club locker room, a male employee took pictures of Farrell in the shower with a cell phone.
Farrell said once he spied the intruder, the man ran out of the locker room and off the hotel premises. Despite reporting the incident immediately to hotel staff, the man wasn’t caught until eight hours later, Farrell said, and the investigation remains ongoing,
The vice mayor was livid and said he felt extremely violated. “If I would have caught this guy, I would be in jail right now,” he said.
Farrell said he worries about the time period from the incident until the man was caught.
“I have nightmares about me seeing my naked body on the Internet,” Farrell told the Monitor. My heartbeat go up every time I go to the Internet, I think ‘is this the time, is this the time?
“It scares the crap out of me,” he said.
When he came across the satirical article about Phelps, “quite honestly it was refreshing” after that experience, Farrell said. “I'm a little scarred right now.”
Farrell stands by at least one part of his original post. “I wish America could get back to the Biblical foundations,” he said Tuesday.
Farrell joins a long list of prominent celebrities, politicians and other actual news agencies who have seen an article from “The Onion,” and believed it to be fact, including Rep. John Fleming (R-La.), ESPN talking head Stephen A. Smith and China's official state newspaper.
“Many have pointed to Phelps’ preaching against the sin of homosexuality as the overwhelming reason why all homosexual advocacy groups died out entirely in the early 1990s,” the fake obit states.
Farrell posted a clarification in the comments section of his original post about 9:30 p.m. Monday.
After mentioning he has “many, many” gay and lesbian friends, Farrell states he read the article with no prior knowledge of Phelps or The Onion. “If you read the article, it mentions nothing about him being anti military, which by the way, I support our troops 100 % and thank God every morning for the ones that put their lives and their families on the line for America,” Farrell writes. “All the article mentions is how this guy fought against Gay rights on a biblical platform that God set before us.”
The vice mayor then lists Bible verses that address homosexual acts before affirming he isn’t judging anyone: “Heck the bible also says that God hates divorce. I am a divorced man, a convicted man! I pray to God every day to please forgive me,” he writes.
Later on in the post, Farrell mentions his frustration at small groups’ advocacy to push for laws that reflect, in his opinion, unpopular views. “What just irritates me the most is when these 10% want to change the law through the constitution that our founding fathers made before us with the fear of God in all of their hearts, souls, and minds while making these laws….if I have offended anyone, please accept my apologies, that was not my intent at all.”

http://www.copamonitor.com/news/arti...9bb2963f4.html

[Psyko Tek]

Originally Posted by Marty Mac Ver 2.0

Jesus, I can't believe the bigotry from this guy. Please read and feel free to comment on the actual story.

Elected Official Hates Gays, Feels They Are Entitled

**** somehow I new it was gonna be from AZ

So once again, I apologize to all for the idiots AZ elects

and quit sending us your old people

I am almost 50 and do not care about your race, creed, color, or current political bend
JUST GET THE **** AWAY FROM ME

[Strongside]

This country would be going to hell in a hand-basket if there were such thing as a hell.

[Pitt Gorilla]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

If people bothered to click the updated link



http://www.copamonitor.com/news/arti...9bb2963f4.html

Yeah, he'd probably never heard of Fred Phelps.

[Prison Bitch]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Yeah, he'd probably never heard of Fred Phelps.

Everyone knows who he is, because people like you simply cannot stop talking about him. Even when he is deceased.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Yeah, he'd probably never heard of Fred Phelps.

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Accusing those you criticize of lying about mitigating circumstances, absent evidence, only serves to lessen your own position.

The guy apologized and said his post was stupid after being briefed on the guy. I have parent's who couldn't pick Lady Gaga out of a police lineup if she'd raped by dad, there is such a thing as low information citizens.

I stand, amongs a wide circle of friends, acutely aware of various persons' pop culture deficits.

Stupid =! evil.

[Why Not?]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Plus we have REAL Mexican food. I'll put my housekeepers Christmas tamales against anything Florida can bring. And don't get me started on access to Vegas and San Diego...

I don't know how to do that thing where you highlight a part of a quote, but if I did I would highlight the shit out of the access to Vegas and San Diego part.

[Why Not?]

Oh and **** this guy. Nobody gives a shit about the town of Maricopa. This would be like people caring what the mayor of Belton thinks.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by patteeu

After your introduction, I was underwhelmed by the article. I expected some kind of diatribe.

You can't believe there are people out there who object to the agenda of LGBT activists?

“We need more Fred Phelps in this world. May you rest in peace sir,” Farrell wrote.

You're not actually voicing some sort of support for this guy are you? Your post doesn't say you are, but some people aren't as tuned in to the patteeu nuances as I am. So, just to clear the air, tell the nice people that you don't actually support someone who says this.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Just as I predicted when he died, Phelps will be the new "Hitler" of social issues in America. Evoked forever. Folks like Race Card will refuse to let him go.

You predicted he'd be evoked on the left. Not by people on the right praising him.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by patteeu

I don't really disagree with that. I was just surprised that when I read the article, I didn't really find the kind of over-the-top bigotry that I expected from the OP's "Jesus, I can't believe the bigotry from this guy.".

'We need more Fred Phelps in the world" is something.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by Donger

I don't like that it's called the Gulf of Mexico. It lessens it somehow. We should rename it the Gulf of Texas.

Yeah, that's what we need to do. Like those assholes' heads aren't big enough already?

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by patteeu

His stated reason for supporting Fred Phelps was that the "world needs to get back to the biblical standards that our God made for us" and upon further questioning he apparently elaborated by indicating he wasn't on board with the "gay and lesbian rights thing". I don't think we should read any more into it than that. There's no indication that he even knows about the Phelps clan's comments about fallen soldiers, for example.