Fred Phelps
publication date: Tuesday, March 7, 2006 (part of Round XXVII)
category: 
Controversy
clue: This hatemonger isn't welcome in Lubbock.
explanation: Phelps was a traveling preacher best known for protesting funerals with an anti-homosexuality message. Site user Erik Bates once wrote on TC about counter-protests when Phelps visited his hometown of Lubbock in a discussion titled "Hatemongers." more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Denise Sawicki, Erik Bates, Amy Austin, Mike Eberhart, David Mitzman, Elliot Farney, Jerry Mathis, Scott Horowitz, Megan Baxter, Lori Lancaster, Chris McKinnon, Michael Paul Cote, Josh Paddison, and Jeremiah Poisson
trivia: Scott didn't intend to give the goo such an obscure clue, but liked the way this early draft sounded and decided to keep it.
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