The anti gay leader of the Westboro Church is a Democrat
Fred Phelps
The Westboro Baptist Church, a Topeka, Kansas-based independent fundamentalist ministry that Phelps founded in 1955, has been called "arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America."[1] Its signature slogan, "God Hates Fags", remains the name of the group's principal website.
Phelps ran in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times, but never won. These included races for governor in 1990, 1994, and 1998, receiving about 15 percent of the vote in 1998.[83] In the 1992 Democratic Party primary for U.S. Senate, Phelps received 31 percent of the vote.[84] Phelps ran for mayor of Topeka in 1993[85][86] and 1997.[87] Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party presidential primary election.[87] In his 1984 Senate race, Gore had opposed a "gay bill of rights" and stated that homosexuality was not something that "society should affirm", a position Gore had publicly changed by 2000 as his official position. Phelps stated that he supported Gore because of these earlier comments.[88] In 1996 Phelps opposed Clinton's (and Gore's) re-election because of the administration's support for gay rights; the Westboro congregation picketed a 1997 inaugural ball.[89]
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