Washburn University’s, Topeka’s, Kansas’ And The United States’ Perpetual Hope And Desire: That Fred Phelps Be Dead

The below letter is written to Washburn Universtiy in response to a blog from a staffer at the university’s newspaper, which you can find here: http://www.washburnreview.org/blog-1.109/dulle-noted?page116=BlogPosting&article116=19.1773380 

Dr. Farley and Washburn Community:

Brian Dulle is having himself some fun with the tools you fine folks have handed him.  First, he used the school news Twitter account to announce the death of Fred Phelps, Pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, without the slightest attempt at source checking.  He followed up that professional gaffe with a new batch of lies, feigning apology through the paper’s blog account.  This kid’s on fire!

Fred Phelps is, of course, an alumni of Washburn University.  All 13 of his children attended Washburn, with nine of them graduating from both your undergraduate and law schools.  Peppered through the years since, you will find his grandchildren as graduates of several of your degree offerings, and before very long his great grandchildren will begin, Lord willing.  It would be accurate to say hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of schooling.  Where’s the love?

But back to the clever, albeit marginally-literate (I long for the good ole days of copy editing), Mr. Dulle’s apology … er … I mean … “admission”.  In his second gaffe, Mr. Dulle announces the official policy of the Washburn University paper “The Review” and apparently the University, to wit:  A perpetual hope and desire that Fred Phelps be dead.  Now I realize that Brian’s sloppy writing makes it a bit of a “where’s Waldo” exercise to find his expression of policy … but it’s certainly there.

That makes the hearts of WBC members (yes, including her very healthy Pastor) sing.  Why?  Because it places our preacher in the class with God’s beloved prophet Jeremiah, who like Fred Phelps was sent to tell a generation of their irreversible doom.  Yes!  The men of Anathoth (Jeremiah’s home town), said to Jeremiah “Prophesy not in the name of the LORD, that thou die not by our hand:” (Jer. 11:21) The men of Topeka, though it is through a smarmy worm at the University newspaper, want so badly to hear of Fred Phelps’ death that all pretense of journalistic integrity is, metaphorically speaking, handed his hat and bid a fond farewell.

This young, venomous cur has bound the Review, the University, and the citizens of Topeka.  We say “Thank God” who has declared His intent for such a city:  “Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine: And there shall be no remnant of them: for I will bring evil upon the men of [Topeka], even the year of their visitation.” (Jer. 11:22-23)

Written on behalf of the Westboro Baptist Church.

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