Their followers are all family. We live about an hour away from these nutballs. They show up at everything ... from funerals to college graduations. What's really sad is their children are being taught to hate. It's child abuse, IMO.
It's too bad they've got a tax-exempt status. I know a couple of the kids are attorneys. We see them all the time on our news. What needs to happen is the media needs to quit covering what they do. If they show up, everyone needs to ignore them. I know this is easier said than done, but they thrive on publicity. I love it when thousands of people show up at these funerals and basically block the Phelps clan from spewing their garbage, but what needs to happen is not one single word about these sickos needs to be in any of the media outlets.
We were coming back from a college graduation in Lawrence, and there were a bunch of them with their hate-filled signs. They were waving their signs and saying things. We just continued our conversations and acted as if they didn't exist. They want us to be shocked, but we don't give them the pleasure of doing this to us.
RIP, Elizabeth.
