Addicted to Hate: The Fred Phelps Story

Brief Background & Table of Contents

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Go To: Table of Contents | Cover: Notes from the Anti-Phelps Underground | Court Documents: Original Petition for Declaratory Relief | Introduction: Background and Cast of Characters | Chapter 1: Introductions all Around | Chapter 2: Daddy's Hands | Chapter 3: God's Left Hook | Chapter 4: Dog Days for the Pastor | Chapter 5: The Children's Crusade | Chapter 6: The Law of Wrath | Chapter 7: Nightmare of Twelfth Street | Chapter 8: Over the Wall at Westboro | Chapter 9: The False Prophet

Once upon a time some very nice people, Jon Michael Bell along with Joe Taschler and Steve Fry, decided to write a story about Fred Phelps.

On June 29, 1994 Jon Michael Bell, a former reporter hired to investigate Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church by Stauffer Communications, Inc.,filed a lawsuit in Shawnee County District Court in Topeka, Kansas against Stauffer Communications alleging the Topeka Capital-Journal owed him compensation for overtime and to clarify ownership of his notes and work product. The work product in question, "Addicted to Hate" chronicling the life and times of Fred Phelps, was attached to the lawsuit as Exhibit A making it, therefore, a public document. Learning of the suit, members of Topeka's anti-Phelps underground delivered a certified copy of the lawsuit to a copy shop near the courthouse.

Addicted to Hate, as reproduced here, is the full contents from Addicted to Hate of Exhibit A of the lawsuit filed in Shawnee County District Court in Topeka, Kansas by Jon Michael Bell against Stauffer Communications in June of 1994, Case number 94CV766. It was transcribed into digital form during the course of the lawsuit by persons unknown, and distributed first as pamphlets and then over the internet.

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