From emails about an antigay protest organized by the Westboro Baptist Church in 2002. The emails were included in the FBI’s file on Fred Phelps, who founded the church in 1955. Phelps was a prominent civil rights attorney in Topeka, Kansas, until the state disbarred him for ethics violations, in 1979. He died last year, and his FBI file was released in February in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Daily Caller.

sunday, october 27
Subject: Bethlehem, PA

Dear Christian Friends at Westboro Baptist Church:

Greetings in the name of…