Liquor store celebrates controversial pastor’s death with champagne discount

Usually, making merry over anyone’s death would be a complete PR disaster, but Oklahoma’s Moore Liquor has earned considerable positive buzz for its Fred Phelps sale.

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I was a little reticent about putting up the sign in the first place because I have two good parents who raised me not to speak ill of the dead, but I couldn’t help feeling that the world was a better place without Fred Phelps. He did so much to spread his special brand of hatred while bastardizing Christian principles that I thought it might be appropriate to recognize his lack of corporeal existence with some celebration.

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