He has written numerous songs and recorded them with the Westboro Baptist Church Choir, including: "I Like to Watch", "America the Burning" and "God Hates America".
Despite being awarded a special honor by the NAACP for his practice of
civil rights cases in the 1970s and 80s, he has been recorded by news
crews and private citizens on numerous occasions screaming racial
expletives at crowds of blacks and civilians. Members of the NAACP have
stated in recent years that Phelps would not have been given the award
had they known that he was using the civil rights cases as a front for
extortion crimes.