UK to Kansas: You are Civil Rights Hypocrites

Remember that little affair going in Iraq? Supposedly, the U.S. military excursion has alienated America from the world community.

Now, I suppose people's disenchantment with America might be more specifically aimed at one geographical location (Washington D.C., Texas, California, New York, the South in general, etc.).

Usually we just think of "Mo-Kan" as flying beneath the international radar of ridicule. However, the UK's Guardian Unlimited has taken the time to remind their readership that Kansas is still home to everything that's wrong with America.

In other words: its' the home of Fred Phelps.

The Guardian points out the irony in Phelps's continued crusades against civil (gay) rights, on the same soil (Topeka) where the Supreme Court outlawed school segregation over 50 years ago. The author, Gary Younge, filed the report directly from Topeka (no word yet if he is a US-based correspondent for the publication or was on assignment here temporarily).