K. Ryan Jones knew he'd picked an incendiary subject when he decided to make a documentary about Westboro Baptist Church for an undergraduate film class at the University of Kansas. He didn't know he had good timing, too.
The making of ''Fall from Grace'' coincided with a surge in attention for the small, fundamentalist church, whose members picket the funerals of soldiers killed overseas. They believe American military casualties are God's punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. (It airs on Showtime Showcase 8:20 p.m. Thursday and 5:45 p.m. Monday, and on Showtime 5:15 p.m. Dec. 13.)
Pastor Fred Phelps and his Topeka, Kan., congregation - most of them members of his immediate family - think any publicity is good publicity. They cooperated fully with Jones, who allows them plenty of time to explain their ideology.
The making of ''Fall from Grace'' coincided with a surge in attention for the small, fundamentalist church, whose members picket the funerals of soldiers killed overseas. They believe American military casualties are God's punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. (It airs on Showtime Showcase 8:20 p.m. Thursday and 5:45 p.m. Monday, and on Showtime 5:15 p.m. Dec. 13.)
Pastor Fred Phelps and his Topeka, Kan., congregation - most of them members of his immediate family - think any publicity is good publicity. They cooperated fully with Jones, who allows them plenty of time to explain their ideology.
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