Arizona vice mayor praises Fred Phelps on Facebook with link to satirical Onion obituary
An elected official in Arizona is walking back his praise for the late Rev. Fred Phelps in a Facebook post.
Edward Farrell, vice mayor of Maricopa, posted a satirical obituary Monday morning of Phelps, who founded the virulently anti-LGBT Westboro Baptist Church, published by the fake news site The Onion, along with a comment of his own.
“We need more Fred Phelps in this world. May you rest in peace sir,” Farrell wrote, in response to the piece that satirically credited the pastor as the “man who forever stopped (the) march of gay rights.”
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“No, I’m not kidding!” Farrell replied, according to the Maricopa Monitor. “This world needs to get back to the biblical standards that our God made for us. This guy was not afraid to preach it, and I respect that.”
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Farrell, who was appointed Maricopa’s first mayor in 2003 and has served ever since on City Council, claimed he hadn’t realized the obituary was satirical and was previously unfamiliar with Phelps.
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