Westboro Baptist Church Founder 'On the Edge of Death'

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Westboro Baptist Church Founder 'On the Edge of Death'
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Fred Phelps, Sr., founder of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church (http://mashable.com/category/westboro-baptist-church/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) famous for its extreme ideologies, was ex-communicated from the church in August and is close to death at a hospice in Kansas, according to a Facebook (http://mashable.com/category/facebook/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) post written by one of his estranged sons early Sunday morning.

Founded in 1955, the Kansas-based church is famous for its anti-gay sentiments and has made a name for itself picketing military funerals, among other events and organizations, with signs that declare such nasty statements as "God hates fags" and "America is doomed." It has been labeled as a hate group by the*Southern Poverty Law Center (http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/westboro-baptist-church)*and the*Anti-Defamation League (http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/wbc/default.html?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=3&item=WBC). Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/17/fred-phelps-westboro-baptist-church/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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