In November 2003, when last we left America's most uninhibited public gay
basher, Topeka, Kan., preacher Fred Phelps, he was proposing a statue to
celebrate the murder of a gay man. In December 2004, his Westboro Baptist
Church issued a press release praising God for the "Tsunami & 2,000 dead
Swedes!!!" after he assumed that Swedes were among the vacationers who drowned
at resorts in Thailand. Phelps had denounced Sweden for jailing a
gay-condemning preacher (Rev. Ake Green, since released). According to Phelps,
the Swedish homosexuals who died were "vacationing on their fat expendable
incomes without kids to bother with and spend money on." [Westboro Baptist
Church press release, 12-29-04]