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March 20, 2014 09:58 pm GMT

Fred Phelps, Anti-Gay Founder of Westboro Church, Is Dead at 84

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Fred Phelps, Sr., founder of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church which has made a name for itself protesting military funerals and propagating its anti-gay ideology, is dead at 84, according to Steve Drain, a spokesman for the church.

The reverend died at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday night, Drain confirmed to Mashable. No cause of death has been specified yetA post on the church's blog quoted multiple passages from the Bible and reaffirmed its stance that the religious organization has no official leader other than Jesus Christ, claiming that there are no internal struggles for the top spot.

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