Anti-Gay Hate Group Says Fred Thompson Shares Their Values

This post, written by Paddy, originally appeared on Cliff Schecter's Brave New Films Blog

Anti-gay church: Thompson agreed with us

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church are urging Fred Thompson to support their stance on homosexuality -- a position on which they say the Republican presidential candidate once ''saw eye to eye'' with them.

Thompson was hired for a mid-1980s legal case in Kansas on the recommendation of Margie Phelps, daughter of Westboro founder Fred Phelps.

The Topeka, Kan.-based church is now best known for protesting at soldiers' funerals, claiming their deaths are retribution for the nation's acceptance of homosexuality.

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Church members released an open letter to Thompson this week, saying he had discussed his views on homosexuality with them while handling the case of a woman who had sued the state's Republican attorney general for sexual harassment.

''We know what your position used to be on the homosexual question -- and it was wonderful, and we saw eye to eye,'' church members said in the letter to Thompson