GodHatesFags.com

GodHatesFags.com is the online home of the Westboro Baptist Church (they also own thesignofthetimes.net, smellthebrimstone.com and godhatesamerica.com), the subjects of the BBC documentary "The Most Hated Family in America." They picket the funerals of soldiers that were killed in Iraq, calling them "fags" and insisting that they will rot in hell. In fact, everyone in the family (including several elementary school-aged children) has been indoctrinated by "Gramps" (preacher Fred Phelps, who began the movement) to believe that anyone who is not in their church is an America-hating sodomite that is headed straight for hell.

Honestly, this group's beliefs and statements so absurd that I find reading the site humorous. I feel like sometime soon they are going to explain that this is all a big joke, and that of course they don't carry these ridiculous beliefs. Unfortunately, I'm probably wrong, however, and this is more likely just a very sad commentary on what can happen when critical thought is absent and beliefs are taken too far. Louis Theroux, the reporter who made the aformentioned documentary, described the Church well when he said, " It shows you what strange avenues the religious impulse can take you down."