It bothers me that Fred Phelps and his fellow loonies at Westboro Baptist get so much media attention, because they perpetuate a lot of incorrect images that many people have of Christians.

He doesn’t deserve our attention, but if he must get it, we should get his affiliations right. Westboro “Baptist” has no affiliation with any mainstream Baptist organization, as far as I can tell. Fred Phelps might consider himself a Christian, but his actions definitely show that he is not. Giving him the attention that we (as a society) do only serves to perpetuate some of the many misconceptions that some people have about Christianity.

Mary Madigan shows, over at Dean’s World, that we could write a technically true article that is just as biased as most pieces on Phelps and have it reflect poorly on Democrats. The fact that I’ve never seen a news story that called him anything other than a “Church leader” seems kind of suspicious, since we all know our media is never biased, right?

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