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Casper says no to Fred Phelps

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CASPER - The Casper City Council said "no" Tuesday to a memorial condemning gays to hell - and "no" to getting rid of a Ten Commandments monument. ...

The Rev. Fred Phelps of Topeka, Kan., wants to install a 6-foot granite monument with a brass plaque saying that Matthew Shepard, who was gay, went to hell.

Phelps, a disbarred attorney, had said that Casper must allow his Scripture-based monument on city grounds because the town already has allowed the Ten Commandments monument, which was donated to the city in the 1960s by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. ...

Phelps, who could not be reached Tuesday night, has already said his family's law firm will sue. ...

Casper isn't Phelps' only target. He has spent the past 12 years with his family members picketing and protesting what he calls America's gay agenda. The group pickets the annual Shepard memorial services in Casper and Laramie, where Shepard went to school.

Phelps has said that national tragedies, including the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the Columbine High School shootings, are God's punishments for the nation's tolerance of homosexuals. Last week, he told the Rocky Mountain News that Casper was "full of gays and gay enablers" and, therefore, condemned to hell.

Deborah Frazier, Rocky Mountain News: Casper City Council votes against 6-foot monument deriding Matthew Shepard

Earlier: Fred Phelps' Leviticus 18:22 monument.

Richard Evans Lee
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This is good news. It's important to cut through the hateful rhetoric and restore some rationality, love and tolerance to the world. Thank you to the residents of Casper for taking on this fight.

Posted by: Arthur | October 31, 2003 12:41 PM

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Richard

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