"God hates A-mer-i-ca, dum dum de dum..."

That's one of the little ditties that Shirley Phelps-Roper (yes, she's his daughter) sings when she takes the God Hates Fags tour on the road. Phelps-Roper, as you can see, is grateful for the September 11 attack on our country, and she gives three reasons why:

"Because you are supposed to thank God for everything because all things flow from and depend upon the Lord, your God. The second is because he didn't kill all of us on September 11. The third reason is because it is a righteous thing. If you believe the Bible and you serve the Lord, your God, with all your heart, all your soul and all your might, you know without even a question, if you have bothered to search the Scriptures, that it is a righteous thing when the Lord, God, executes judgment in that fashion upon a rebellious people. It is a comforting thing."

So there you have it. According to her father, the Rev. Fred Phelps, it was homosexuals who caused the demise of the Columbia shuttle, giving the term "gay power" a whole new meaning.