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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 10:51 AM
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Anti-Gay Group To Challenge Protest Ban
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/03/030206phelps.htm

Members of a Kansas group known for their "God Hates Fags" placards say they'll picket the weekend funeral of a Missouri soldier, setting up the first direct challenge of a new state law.

Army Pfc. Christopher L. Marion, killed last week by a roadside bomb in Iraq, will be buried Saturday in Anderson, south of Joplin in the southwest corner of Missouri.

And the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church will be there, said Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the Rev. Fred Phelps. He founded the nondenominational church that claims God is allowing soldiers, coal miners and others to be killed because the United States tolerates homosexuals.

Phelps-Roper, one of several attorneys in the family, called Missouri's new law impotent and said the lawmakers who passed it violated their oath to the Constitution.


does anyone else see this ending badly-not just for the Phelps klan but for some of the funeral goers as well?

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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:02 AM
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1. I guess they will be arrested.
:popcorn:
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TallahasseeGrannie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:26 AM
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2. If this guy didn't exist
we'd have to invent him to shore up the right side loon brigade.

It would be funny if it weren't so tragic.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-03-06 11:31 AM
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3. they couldn't build an asylum deep enough or dark enough
to hold that creature phelps.
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