When the discriminative hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, publicly states that they believe the actions of another hate group in the United States are "obnoxious" and "too far", you know this group must be highly offensive. The hate group that the Ku Klux Klan is referring to in these remarks is the Westboro Baptist Church (KKK). The Westboro Baptist Church is an American unaffiliated church located in Topeka, Kansas, and is known for its extreme ideologies and hate-group-like actions. The leader of this church was Fred Phelps, before he passed in 2014, and the forty members affiliated with this church are Phelps' family members. The church's first public service was held on November 27th, 1955 and since then the members of this church have spread extreme hate nationwide against homosexuals, soldiers, and Jews (Westboro). The Westboro Baptist Church is able to deliver their message of hate and discrimination against various groups in the United States by attaching themselves to major events, using the media to broadcast them, and upholding their constitutional rights under the first amendment.
In order to attempt to understand the extreme ideologies of the Westboro Baptist Church it is necessary to examine the groups they discriminate against and the biblical reasons as to why. The Westboro Baptist Church preaches a strict form of Primitive Baptism as well as Calvinism. The Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist World Alliance organizations have both publicly denounced the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church for years. This is due to their extreme practice of oppression towards all other religious affiliations including Jews, Catholics, Lutherans, and other Christian denominations they deem to be heretical (Extremism). .
Aside from discriminating against other religious denominations, the Westboro Baptist Church has also discriminated against homosexuals and soldiers.
