Apparently because gays caused a heterosexual rape murder or something, Fred Phelps and his crowd are now protesting the Marine Corps. From the group's news release:

God Hates the U.S. Marines.

The wonderful, spit-and-polish Marine is over eight months pregnant and she says another wonderful Marine raped her, and now on the eve of his court martial where she is the star witness against him, she turns up dead, and he is a fugitive from justice.

Wonderful. The few. The proud. Based on our extensive experience with Marines for over a decade, we can testify that these are typical Marines. WBC will picket the filthy, lawless Marine Corps - at noon next Sat., Jan. 19 - at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; in religious protest and warning: "Be not "'deceived; God is not mocked." Gal. 6:7. God Hates Fags! & FagEnablers.

Ergo, God hates the Marines.

The Marine Corps is saturated with vile fags and dykes...

I'm a bit slow on the uptake, because for years I thought Phelps and his followers were simple agents provocateur. It turns out I had it all wrong.

Fortunately for everyone, Frank J. has figured out what drives this bizarre group.

They follow an obscure Gospel of Barnabas in which God stated the following:

...If I could convince man away from one sin, it would not be murder or lying; it would be dude on dude action. All the other sins hardly matter in comparison. Actually, forget the rest of my message about love and virtue; only focus on stopping dudes from doing other dudes. It just bothers Me, and thus it should be all you ever talk about. Go into the streets, my child, and proclaim as loudly as you can how much you don't like dudes giving it to dudes. Even interrupt events that have absolutely nothing to do with dudes doing dudes to spread My message of totally not liking that. They may hate you for it, but they will never mistake you for a dude-doer....

It also explains Ace's theory. ("Pansexual snowballing" is the kindest thing he says about them.)