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Phelps-A-Thon
Phelps-A-Thon.com is a Boston-based, pro-LGBT website working to counteract the message spread by the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) and their leader, Rev. Fred Phelps. It works by channeling passions against WBC into donations for groups targeted by the WBC's pickets.
Phelps-A-Thon.com assists groups that are being picketed by WBC in setting up a ''Telethon'' type of counter-protest. Through the “Phelps-A-Thon.com” website, supporters are able to pledge online to donate a certain amount of money for every minute WBC pickets against a specific target, usually LGBT or Jewish groups.〔(God Hates Fags )〕 The longer they protest, the more money they raise for the cause they are demonstrating against.
== History ==
Phelps-A-Thon.com is run by LGBT-activst, Chris Mason. The website arose when Fred Phelps from the Westboro Baptist Church came to Boston to protest a local production of The Laramie Project. The event raised over $4,600 for the pro-LGBT project, Driving Equaity. After this first ''Phelps-A-Thon'', people from around the country, upon learning they were going to be picketed by WBC, started contacting Chris, asking for help in setting up their own ''Phelps-A-Thons''.〔(Phelps-A-Thon )〕 The ''Phelps-A-Thon.com'' website was created in an effort to helps local activists conduct the counter-protests in their own communities.
During a trek across the country to promote LGBT equality, Chris Mason, founder of ''Phelps-A-Thon.com'' stopped in Topeka, Kansas to visit the Westboro Baptist Church. Concealing his activist identity, he sat down for a conversation with Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of Fred Phelps, to get a better understanding of the group's mission. In a video clip of the interview, Chris asks Shirley her opinion of the ''Phelps-A-Thon'' counter-protests.
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