Why did fox news label the Westboro baptist church as a extreme left wing cult?

Because FOX is incapable of admitting that any evil could possibly come from the right.

Here's a clip from first website you posted: As you may also know, the evangelical anti-gay activists on the Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas normally picket the funerals of gay people. They’re the sort folks who function the “God Hates Fags” site (these are also as a rule the sort of signs they maintain at their protests). Over the last a couple of years they’ve began to wood the funerals of non-homosexual people as well, together with US service individuals, though it’s not absolutely clear why, rather than as a method of getting awareness. That is disgusting and now not God's method. Religion and politics will have to no longer mix. Humans who exhibit such hateful narrow minded views aren't performing as a real Christian must. These individuals will not inherit the blessings of God's Kingdom.

First of all, the link is a blog, making that claim without documentation.

Now Fox does mess up at times, putting the wrong party label on a particular politician, and it is often caught, but not before someone captures a screen image.

So impossible to know in what context the charge is being made.

Bummer. I thought Fred Phelps was a hero. Now I find out that he's a left winger. And Fox News reported it, so the news comes from a credible source.

Why did you have to bring this up?

religion doesn't really have a political ideology does it?

the founder was a democrat (from Kansas), but hating gays doesn't go hand in hand with American liberalism. They also picketed the funeral of Al Gore's father. They claim God brought about 9/11, etc because America embraces gays.

I wouldn't label it left or right wing. They're just idiots.

The westboro baptist church aren't left nor are they right wing. They live in their own little world where they think everyone is going to hell. Thats it.

Because Fred Phelps is a registered Democrat.

Clearly, it's ridiculous to call an anti-gay group left-wing though.

Because it's an extreme left wing cult.

It may have something to do with their blatant lack of respect for the dead, and the protests at the funerals of our service personnel who have made the ultimate sacrifice...

Because they're ignorant fucks. *they being Fox News reporters*