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Bart McquearyBart McQueary, birth name Bartley McQueary, is a radical Calvinist from Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and an acolyte of preacher Fred Phelps. He owns and runs a website, www.bartmcqueary.com, which acts as a platform for his beliefs. Like Phelps, McQueary expresses extreme hatred for homosexuals, politicians, religious leaders, divorcees, and adulterers, claiming that the hatred he espouses towards them is the greatest form of love, and calling for all those who fit into those categories to be killed. In addition, he preaches an extreme hatred for the USA. Ironically, he has solidified himself as anti-war on the basis that it encourages killing, stating that US soldiers killed in Iraq have gone to hell for breaking the commandment that "thou shalt not kill." Regarding the US military, McQueary says: - "The United States military is comprised of people who are unstable and only know violence and killing as the way to solve any problem"
He openly supports making adultery and homosexuality a capital offense punishable by death, although he shies away from "vigilante violence" or "gay bashing". Kentucky newspapers have claimed in articles that McQueary is divorced, but McQueary himself has never acknowledged whether or not these statements are true or false. As part of his rationalization for condemning homosexuality, McQueary cites the discredited 1983 ISIS Survey. McQueary's website also attacks numerous people and institutions in the Harrodsburg area. He is most extreme in his hatred towards divorced women, calling them "pussy throwers" and "cum dumps" and writing opinion pieces in which he complains that the police cannot legally kill women who seek divorce and/or cheat on their spouses. In these articles he also lashes out at the Harrodsburg police department, pointing out the sexual transgressions of individual officers, accusing the department of not protecting him, and daring officers to try and take action against him, at the threat of a lawsuit from the ACLU. In 2005, McQueary celebrated the suicide of a police officer who had arrested him for assault, announcing: "He is in Hell." Prior to converting to Calvanism, McQueary was an atheist. He first worked as a professional wrestler on the independent circuit and worked charity for children's organizations. After retiring from wrestling, McQueary ran a web-based adult film business specializing in "extreme" pornography such as bestiality, films featuring hermaphrodites, and bukkake. Formerly called "Bart's Stuff," McQueary claims to have severed ties with the business in 2003 after a "religious experience" he declines to elaborate on. Following his departure, "Bart's Stuff" became "REM Entertainment" and was purportedly taken over by another Harrodsburg resident, who refers to himself as "Robert E. Million," an obvious play on words. McQueary's detractors claim that McQueary is in fact Robert E. Million, but no evidence exists to support this claim. On his webpage, McQueary often speaks in the third person, or as if the page were being written by a group. He claims to have two followers helping him run the page, two young graduate students, a boy from the University of Kentucky and a girl from the University of Indiana. On his "about us" page, McQueary (in third person) provides a glowing autobiography of himself, in which he refers to himself as a "near genius" and boasts of, as a child, "pushing the failing Mercer County school system to its limits." The autobiography is full of hyperbole, such as the statement that: One member of the City Government relayed to Bart that the members of the City Commission would literally shake when they saw him come in to speak. He later says: Not only did Bart squarely and roundly defeat their appointed Assistant Attorney General, but he made him look like a fool before his own people... Their attorney was forced to resort to post hoc arguments and appeared to be unable to concentrate on the case once Bart began speaking. Finally the pitiful attorney resigned to his fate, accepted his humiliating loss to a layman and crawled back into his office. McQueary also uses his autobiography as yet another springboard to attack the man who could be called his "arch rival," Boyle County Attorney Dick Campbell: He has successfully defended himself against one of Satans most dubious servants, Boyle County Attorney Dick Campbell. Rather than suffer the same fate as his Attorney General counterpart, Dick took a knee and was quick to dismiss charges. He was literally shaking at the prospect of having to litigate against a legal Minotaur such as Bart. In 2002 he engineered a staged "hack" of his site by "Concerned Citizens of Harrodsburg." Several other URL's with a connection to Harrodsburg, such as harrodsburgpd.com redirect traffic to the McQueary site. Many of the links on the website, however, merely redirect to documents on Fred Phelps' notorious websites www.godhatesfags.com and www.godhatesamerica.com. Many people believe that McQueary is the alias of an anonymous performance artist participating in an elaborate parody of Phelps. However, his numerous arrests in Harrodsburg--including one for assault after allegedly striking a seventeen year old boy in the head at a movie theatre and screaming obscenities at the patrons, resulting in his having to be forcibly removed from the premesis--prove that he is far from a "performance artist." Those charges were dismissed. To date, McQueary has used bullying tactics and legal loopholes to save himself from any jail time, but his famously quick temper keeps him in perpetual danger of having that change. McQueary, along with the ACLU, sued Mercer County (of which Harrodsburg is the county seat) for posting the Ten Commandments in the courthouse in 2001. That case pushed McQueary into the public eye for the first time; in 2005, the case went to the Supreme Court. In 2002, the Kentucky Athletic Commission refused to renew McQueary's wrestling license. He sued and represented himself apparently winning a decision in his favor, but has since stopped performing, claiming that "the wrestling business is full of fags." McQueary declared that he would picket during a military parade in Danville, Kentucky in remembrance of 9/11 in 2004. He proclaimed that he would trample the American flag under his feet and fly it upside down. When the chief of police informed him that he would be arrested under Kentucky's flag desecration law, McQueary contacted the ACLU who in turn threatened a lawsuit against the city. The protest occurred as planned with McQueary holding signs that read "Thank God for 9/11", "Fag Troops", "God Hates America" and "Wrath of God" the latter with a picture of the World Trade Center towers burning. Pursuant to his word he also trampled the flag. Two Danville police officers were ordered to protect him. Most recently, McQueary has been threatened with legal action from the Commonwealth of Kentucky for trademark infringement. Kentucky owns a logo of a horse with the words Kentucky: Unbridled Spirit. McQueary modified this logo to read "Kentucky: The World's Largest Whorehouse" and posted on his website. After receiving a cease and desist letter, McQueary responded by daring the Commonwealth to take action against him and increasing the size of his logo, and posting an essay in which he referred to Kentucky Commerce Cabinet attorney Ellen Benzing as a "lying idiotic bitch." External links - Clarifying note: The author of the "Christian" Web site accepts that McQueary is likely a fictional character, but wishes to note that ResurrectionSong is not a Christian Web site. Although it references religion on a somewhat regular basis, its authors and contributors run the range from atheists and agnostics to Baptists and Catholics. The name of the site was taken from a song by Mark Lanegan off of his Field Songs album.
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