Fred Phelps

Fred Phelps is a conservative minister from Topeka, Kansas. His views of homosexuals, Canadians, and Americans are representative of most of the evangelical movement which also includes Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell. His views are even more extreme than Falwell and Robertson because he actually thanks God for dead American soldiers and calls Bush (a far rightist and authoritarian) a "fag-enabler". This has prompted some Christian fundamentalists to distance themselves from Phelps despite sharing similar views. Rev. Falwell referred to Phelps as a "first class nut" and many conservative Christians are afraid of Phelps because they believe he is damaging to their cause.

Although he is part of the Religious Right and an authoritarian, his extreme views were even further to the fringe than radical Rightist preachers such as Pat Robertson. While Phelps shares Robertsons views on homosexuality and blames homosexuals for 9/11, he takes his extreme right wing views so far that his viewpoints are often opposed to by most right-wingers in America. For example he supported Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein who are both demonized by the American Right (and many on the Left as well). The reason he supports Castro has nothing to do with communism or left-wing economics though, he supports him because of Castro's strong views against Homosexuality and his authoritarianism. He supported Saddam Hussein because he allowed Christians to preach in Baghdad (Saddam was secular and didn't really care about religion). Because of his support of Castro, his past support of the Democratic Party (which used to be the "Conservative" party at one time), his criticism of other members of the religious right, and his past support of Saddam Hussein (he has since changed his view on Saddam and now says he is in hell) which are sometimes considered "leftist" and more importantly because of his embarrassment to the Religious Right, he has been called a liberal activist and a leftist by Conservapedia.

This helps to illustrate two points. One point is that despite Conservapedia's extreme views there are even more radical conservatives out there who Conservapedia want nothing to do with and secondly, it demonstrates that Conservapedia is terribly biased because anyone who disagrees with what they say is "liberal" even if their opponent has views which are in stark contrast to liberalism like Phelps.

Moderate conservatives and liberals have both blasted Phelps and he still remains on the fringes of the American political right.