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“Only a visceral animosity that is the antithesis of Christian agape could account for such an unrelenting assault.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch
February 14, 2006
By A. Barton Hinkle
The Rev. Fred Phelps, leader of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, likes to show up at funerals with a placard reading, “God Hates Fags.” Certain legislators in the General Assembly — principally Republicans — evidently would like to post one reading, “Us Too.”
This year the Assembly made approval of a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage its first order of business. The amendment bans not just marriage, but potentially any legal arrangement that even approximates it.