소개
프레드 펠프스(Fred Phelps,1929년 11월 13일 ~ 2014년 3월 19일)는 웨스트보로 침례교회(Westboro Baptist Church)의 설립자이다. 그는 생전 동성애 혐오적 관점을 가지고 활발한 활동을 벌였으며, 그의 사후에도 웨스트보로 침례교회는 지속적인 안티 동성애적 행보를 보여 명예훼손방지연맹과 남부빈곤법률센터에 의해 증오단체로 규정되었다.
Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. was an American minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, worked as a civil rights attorney, and ran for statewide election in Kansas. A divisive and controversial figure, he gained national attention for his homophobic views and protests near the funerals of gay people, AIDS victims, military veterans, and disaster victims whom he believed were killed as a result of God punishing the U.S. for having "bankrupt values" and tolerating homosexuality. Phelps founded the Westboro Baptist Church, a Topeka, Kansas-based independent Primitive Baptist congregation, in 1955. It has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as "arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America". Its signature slogan, "God Hates Fags", remains the name of the group's principal website.
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