Tonight we will examine the real life of Pastor Fred Phelps, and a man he reminds me of the character Reverand William Stryker from the X-Men series.
Pastor Fred Phelps
Frederick Waldron Phelps, Sr. was born on November 13, 1929. He is the pastor and founder of the Wesboro Baptist Church (WBC) an independant Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas. Fred Phelps is a former lawyer that was disbared, his church is designated a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The WBC is well known for protesting at military funerals, funerals of homosexual men, women, and also at political rallies. As of 2006 the WBC is barred from protesting funerals in about 19 states. Pastor Phelps has many known quotes such as "God Hates Fags" which is also the name of his website, others include "Thank God for 9/11" , "Aids cures fags" , and calls people who support gay rights "fag enablers.
Reverand William Stryker
Stryker is a religious fanatic, with a military history which may have involved the Weapon X project (the same project which results in Wolverine being given his adamantium skeleton). Stryker is characterized by his unequivocal hatred of mutants. So strong is this hatred that Stryker goes so far as to kill his own wife and mutant-born son immediately after his birth. Crazed and outraged, Stryker then makes a failed suicide attempt. As time passes, he becomes convinced Satan has a plot to destroy humankind by corrupting prenatal souls, the result of this corruption being mutants. Additionally, Stryker eventually comes to see the birth of his mutant son as a sign from God, directing him to his true calling: ensuring the eradication of all mutants.
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