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Ft. Wayne, IN
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Sunday, March 13
Against Fred Phelps

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Fort Wayne, Indiana---- The Equal Rights Coalition will play host to America's most notable homophobe in Fort Wayne on Sunday. The Rev. Fred Phelps, who runs the God Hates fags website and whose followers regularly demonstrate against LGBT rights has agreed to take part in a forum on gay rights.

Members of Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas - most of whom are family members - gained national notoriety when they protested outside the 1998 funeral for Matthew Shepard, the gay college student beaten to death in Wyoming.

The murder led to the play "The Laramie Project" in which Phelps is depicted. The award winning play will run for four days beginning Thursday at the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne.

Phelps and his followers plan to picket the museum and six area churches that he claims are tolerant of gays.

The Equal Rights Coalition has scheduled the forum for 11 a.m. Sunday at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Phelps welcomed the invitation. "We'll accommodate it if it's anywhere near reasonable," Phelps said. "It's just a wonderful way to show the contrast between the truth of God and the abomination of sin."

The protests are scheduled for the same day as a children's music program at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, one of the targeted churches, and the Rev. Phil Emerson said members' main concern was "protecting our children from obscenity."

The Equal Rights Coalition is planning the forum, which is set for 11 a.m. March 13 in Room 159 in IPFW’s Classroom-Medical Building at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Bender said he is working with IPFW police to ensure they are prepared for the event, as well. Police officers will be at each protest site to maintain order.

Many Westboro Baptist Church fliers emphasize the race or religion of these individuals, suggesting that the Church's hate spreads beyond its abhorrence of homosexuality.

Fred Phelps---"Filthy sodomites crave legitimacy as dogs eating their own vomit & sows wallowing in their own feces crave unconditional love. All gays & lesbians are liars and murderers at heart, like their father, Satan. The only true Nazis in this world are fags.”