Well, I finally made it to Westboro Baptist Church. I was driving through Topeka, so I figured I’d stop there and snap a photo. This is the church of Fred Phelps, the crazy guy who holds up “God Hates America” and “God Hates Fags” signs.
This is how you know you are in Kansas:
Wayne Besen is the Founding Executive Director of Truth Wins Out and author of “Anything But Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies Behind the Ex-Gay Myth” (Haworth, 2003). In 2010, Besen was awarded the “Visionary Award” at the Out Music Awards for organizing the American Prayer Hour, an event which shined a spotlight on the role American evangelicals played in the introduction of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill.
