For fifteen years the Reverend Fred Phelps has been unleashing a torrent of hate-filled fire and brimstone rhetoric on his congregation at the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, and in this do... read more 
DVD Release Date: February 26, 2008
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April 13, 2012If there is a hell (and I'm convinced that there is), Fred Phelps will have a seat of honor there. Burn Fred Burn!
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March 13, 2011Hate personified! One major point was missing from such an in-depth documentary about Fred Phelps and his inbred hate factory - where does the money come from and how do they maintain tax exemption as a church since the church is only his crazy family? Other than this unaddress... read more
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November 28, 2010Decent mostly fly-on-the-wall style doc about the Phelps clan and their radical home taught hatred and protest tactics0.
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February 24, 2010A satisfyingly balanced, and for that all the more scathing, look into a rather minor but vocal sideshow of the American Heartland.
It feels like one of those micro-history books sitting in your local bookstore: focused on one subject and rarely if ever deviating to even briefl... read more -
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January 10, 2010A look at a very disturbed group of people who hate homosexuality but wish for the death of our soldiers overseas. Do they have the right to picket? Yes they do. But it is a shame that it is people like this who make the good Christina people of the world look bad. And there are ... read more
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November 24, 2008Worth seeing to get to the message at the end of the film: that those who need love the most deserve it the least.
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April 7, 2008its everyones favorite slanderous preacher: Fred Phelps! Fred Phelps and his family have been protesting at events such as funerals of gay americans and soldiers with their hateful words and signs for 15 years. didn't get much from this doc that i didn't know already know. it did... read more
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January 12, 2008I know this will sound mean...but this is the reason why i am not too keen on Christian people. I respect their beliefs, but the very zealous ones tend to attack those who think differently than they do and that is simply wrong, defeating all purpose and meaning of their faith.
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