The More Fred Phelps Protests - The More Gay Rights Get Supported.

[TheBigotBasher]

Members of the US Westboro Baptist Church, who chant slogans such as "fags burn in hell", have unintentionally raised money for a gay rights group.

LGBT activists have set up a scheme in which people are asked to donate money for every minute the Phelps family protest against gays.

The vehemently homophobic church, whose leader Fred Phelps runs GodHatesFags.com, turned up to picket outside the White House on Monday, calling President Obama the 'antichrist' for his support of equality.

However, Phelps and his church were met by LGBT supporters who protested against them, raising money for local group Gays and Lesbians Opposing Violence.

The scheme was thought up by Driving Equality, an organisation that has held various 'Phelps-A-Thons'.

Visitors to the website www.phelps-a-thon.com can sponsor the Westboro Baptist Church by choosing an amount to donate for every minute the group chants slogans such as “god hates fags".

All of the proceeds go towards local LGBT support groups, or to Driving Equality.

Driving Equality aims to raise $25,000 (£17,374) and has already raised over $10348 (£7,192).

Some of this money is to fund founder Chris Mason's 100-day, 16,000-mile road trip through 48 states to advance LGBT equality.

There have been other 'Phelps-A-Thons' at places such as Harvard and SUNY and Mason has appealed for more, saying that he can organise the sponsoring events wherever the fundamentalist family visit.

[Somawas]

1. See! Phelps is in the closet!

He's using reverse psychology to raise funds for the LBGT movement. How you going to raise some bucks without opposition?

[TheBigotBasher]

2. Maybe the line he doth protest too much is fitting.

I am glad that the gay community is actually finding a positive way to take advantage of his bigotry.

[Enthusiast]

3. I really wonder about this Phelps guy.

But even more than Phelps I wonder about these followers he has. I mean, how fucking stupid and gullible do these foolish fucks have to be?

I'm formulating a hypothesis based on the idea that anyone that has voice, promoting any crazy ideology, could amass a following. The loonier the ideology the more popular it will become. There is some evidence to support it.