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Sean 
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
New Zealand
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 Posted - 20/03/2014 : 20:56:59
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 Exit closet, enter cask.
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SixFourian 
"Four ever European"
The European Union
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Posted - 20/03/2014 : 23:51:40
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Rot In Peat (his imagined afterlife not existing).
Are you suggested that he was in the closet, Sean? I really don't think that's the case. |
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
New Zealand
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Posted - 21/03/2014 : 22:14:16
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Originally posted by Salopian
Rot In Peat (his imagined afterlife not existing).
Are you suggested that he was in the closet, Sean? I really don't think that's the case.
I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. It makes no sense to me at all for someone to devote his entire life to attacking homosexuality and homosexuals unless it was somehow personal. I don't believe at all that he was doing a Ted Haggard (homophobic preacher who was having rendezvous with male prostitutes) or it would be well known. But I'm guessing he perhaps had a 'secret' that he was ashamed of and his way of dealing with it was the venomous church he created. I'd give it 50:50 perhaps.
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demonic
"Cinemaniac"
United Kingdom
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Posted - 22/03/2014 : 10:23:24
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Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
New Zealand
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Posted - 22/03/2014 : 21:08:31
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Louis Theroux's FB obituary (of sorts) for Phelps. He mentions the "he was gay" speculation, but doesn't think it's likely to be the case. An interesting read.
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SixFourian
"Four ever European"
The European Union
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Posted - 28/03/2014 : 03:16:25
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Originally posted by Sean
I don't know, but it wouldn't surprise me. It makes no sense to me at all for someone to devote his entire life to attacking homosexuality and homosexuals unless it was somehow personal. I don't believe at all that he was doing a Ted Haggard (homophobic preacher who was having rendezvous with male prostitutes) or it would be well known. But I'm guessing he perhaps had a 'secret' that he was ashamed of and his way of dealing with it was the venomous church he created. I'd give it 50:50 perhaps.
I think many cases of homophobic diatribe may come from closet cases, but I really don't think that was so with him. Lots of spite from people like that is just spite -- racism is usually just racism, for example, not people hating themselves for secretly being black (though of course there are exceptions even to that). I think your second theory is the more likely one: he had severe issues, for example with his apparently perfectly nice father and sister. |
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RIP Fred Phelps
