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Daily Dish

The Abusive Cult Of Fred Phelps

By The Daily Dish
March 13, 2011

The sociopathy extends outward and inward, as one son who escaped the nightmare, explains.

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2006-2011 archives for The Daily Dish, featuring Andrew Sullivan

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