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Social Control and the Westboro Baptist Church: Fuel to the Fire?
… how the tactics and strategies of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) have been shaped and maintained through both internal and external elements of social control. In addition to data obtained through field observations of WBC pickets at the funerals of military personnel who have died …
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Precarious Positions: Toward a Theory and Analysis of Rhetorical Vulnerability
… in my next chapter to the rhetoric of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), which I describe as “trolling rhetoric” designed to provoke responses rather than persuade audiences. In my third chapter, I examine how opponents of the WBC attempt to manage their rhetorical vulnerability through …
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“GOD HATES FAGS”—THE USE OF RELIGION AS JUSTIFICATION FOR PREJUDICE TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS
<p>The Westboro Baptist Church and Phelps family are notorious for their signs proclaiming anti-homosexuality epithets such as “God Hates Fag,” and references to Biblical verses to revile homosexuality (e.g., Romans 1:24-27). Although the homonegativity bias that Westboro patrons and many …