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''America's Most Hated Family in Crisis'' is a 2011 BBC documentary film presented and written by Louis Theroux, who revisits the family at the core of the Westboro Baptist Church. It is a follow up to 2007's ''The Most Hated Family in America'', also written and presented by Theroux. The documentary first aired on BBC Two in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2011 at 9pm.〔 It received mainly positive reviews from critics, with the ''Metro'' calling it "terrifying". The documentary had 3.33 million viewers and was BBC Two's most watched programme of that week.〔(BARB UK Viewing Figures (for week March 28 - April 03, 2011) )〕 == Background == (詳細はFred Phelps(who died in 2014) and based in Topeka, Kansas. Born in 1929 in Meridian, Mississippi,〔 Phelps conducted himself in the belief that he was a prophet chosen by God "to preach His message of hate". Phelps was ordained a Southern Baptist in 1947.〔〔 The Westboro Baptist Church was started by Phelps in 1955.〔 Members of the church meet in Phelps's residence; the majority of the group's adherents are his family. Phelps received an associate's degree from John Muir Junior College in 1951, a bachelor's degree in 1962 and a degree in law in 1964 from Washburn University.〔〔 He formed a "crusade for righteousness", attempting to abolish Jim Crow laws in Topeka.〔 In 1991 when a local park started to serve as a meeting place for homosexual men, Phelps began to protest against homosexuality. Phelps subsequently enlarged the scope of his activities and formed protests in areas where civil rights were being debated for LGBT people.〔 Phelps received criticism in 1998 when he repeatedly exclaimed "Matt is in hell" during the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a man murdered for being homosexual.〔 Westboro Baptist Church bases its work around its belief that God hates homosexuals, mainly through the use of their motto "God Hates Fags", and expresses the opinion, based on its Biblical interpretation, that nearly every tragedy in the world is God's punishment for homosexuality – specifically society's increasing tolerance and acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual people. It maintains that God hates homosexuals above all other kinds of sinners and that homosexuality should be a capital crime. The church runs the websites GodHatesFags.com, GodHatesAmerica.com, and websites condemnnatory of LGBT people, Roman Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Sweden, Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United States. The organisation is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League and is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group has achieved notoriety because of its picketing of funeral processions of US soldiers killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Controversial acts of Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church resulted in litigation and the formation of groups which counter-protest against its efforts. President George W. Bush signed the Respect for America's Fallen Heroes Act into law on Memorial Day in May 2006. Members of the conservative Internet forum Free Republic mounted counterdemonstrations against pickets by the church. Groups of American Legion members formed motorcycle honor guards with the intention of safeguarding funerals of US military from the church protesters.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「America's Most Hated Family in Crisis」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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