"Thank God for 9/11. Thank God for (Improvised Explosive Devices). God hates Fags."

These words came from the mouth of one of the most evil and vile women in today's world. They came just one day before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks when I talked with Shirley Phelps on my weekly talk show, which airs Mondays at 5 p.m. on The Wildcat 91.9.

I asked Phelps how she planned to commemorate the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. She said she planned to stand on the streets waving the notorious signs of the Westboro Baptist Church.

She corrected me and called those who attacked our country "so-called terrorists." Phelps said, "9/11 was the beginning of sorrows for this nation … It's too late for this nation … God is your terrorist."

The anger that poured out of this woman's mouth was absolutely incredible. What happened to the love Jesus Christ taught on the Sermon on the Mount? What happened to the God of Peace so many individuals have come to embrace and accept into their lives?

According to Phelps, the Christ who gave the Sermon on the Mount is the same Christ who hates the United States. The God of Peace is the same one who is pleased when Phelps and her cronies picket funerals of fallen soldiers. Those same soldiers who gave their lives so Phelps can do and say what she does freely.

Love. Peace. Hate. These are all synonymous with the word of God that Phelps' father, Fred, preaches from. In one of his notorious sermons, he preached, "It's too late to pray for America. It's a sin to pray for America."

Then why, Mrs. Phelps, do you protest on Sept. 11? After a few seconds of dead air, she answered, "You have a duty to the Lord your God." This must be the same duty that entails individuals holding signs with hate speech, but excludes praying for the United States.

Contradiction riddles the beliefs of Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. The God of Peace is full of hatred. It is a sin to pray for America, yet it is acceptable to preach God hates America. It is mind-numbing.

This kind of thinking is terrifying, to say the least. For individuals to actually embrace this sort of doctrine is, for a lack of a better term, insane.

The only hope U.S. citizens have for the end of this psychotic church is if the Phelps' stop having children. Shirley Phelps is the third of eight daughters. She is the mother of 11 children. The only way this church of 72 souls continues to thrive is because of the sick reproduction taking place. It is easy to invite individuals into a system of beliefs when those individuals are brainwashed from their first breath.

Sept. 11 always will be a day of solemnity, reverence and peaceful reflection. What the Phelps' do is sickening and an unbelievable disrespect to this nation.

Their actions are comparable to radical Islamists who wage war on this country and its allies; after all, she prays God will continue sending soldiers back home in body bags.

When confronted with the idea she is no better than a radical Islamist, I could feel the love of Christ through the telephone.

Her response was simply, "You're a smarmy little weasel."

Chuck Armstrong is a senior in electronic media production. Please send comments to opinion@spub.ksu.edu.