Westboro Baptist ghouls to picket Elizabeth Edwards funeral

[jefferson_dem]

Kansas group to picket Edwards' funeral

Westboro Baptist Church, a group with a history of staging protests at funerals and issuing anti-gay statements, is planning to picket the Saturday funeral of Elizabeth Edwards.

The group said it will picket outside Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh from 12:15 until 1 p.m. when the funeral is scheduled to begin.

The group, based in Topeka, Kan., travels nationally to picket funerals.

The group came into the national spotlight when members picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young man from Wyoming who was beaten to death by two men because of his homosexuality. Westboro has protested at the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and well-known people such as Fred Rogers, Coretta Scott King and Jerry Falwell.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/09/852759/kansas-group-to-picket-edwards.html#ixzz17cMR1pAO

[lamp_shade]

1. This has occurred to me several times over the last 2 days. I'm sick to my stomach to hear this,

but thanks for letting us know.

[Vickers]

2. "God Hates Fags" sign? Check. Inbred relatives? Check. Fix-A-Flat? Check. n/t

[redirish28]

3. HOPEFULLY the town will stop these crazy like we have seen towns do in the past.

[T Wolf]

7. Why do I suspect that there will be no "official" efforts to stop them - because it is not a

military "hero" who died but a Democrat?

[a la izquierda]

12. Biker dudes came to town to counter-protest...

when Westboro showed up at the University of Oklahoma campus. They were protesting Hillel, or something.

[littlewolf]

4. ok several times there have been towns that have

successfully shut this group down .... maybe because of the size of Mrs. Edward's funeral this isn't possible ....
but I hope a couple of things happen ...
1. the news media gives ZERO coverage to this group ...
2. there is some way to keep this group as far away as possible
for the funeral and mourners like a couple of miles ....

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. They need to create a "Westboro Baptist Church-free Zone"

n/t

[chimpymustgo]

6. Put them in a "free speech" zone 30 miles away.

[madrchsod]

8. they will never get anywhere near the funeral...

police have a way to take care of "trouble makers".....

[spanone]

9. what a bunch of chickenshit faux christian assholes.....

[Little Star]

10. What a bunch of sick F***s! n/t

[Bettie]

11. These people are not just crazy, they are evil

They even make the evangelicals look like good guys...and that is not easy to do.

I hope they can be kept away from her funeral. Her family doesn't deserve this on top of their grief.

[revolution breeze]

13. These idiots were at both of my nephews' funerals.

Thankfully the community reached out and showed up in support of the family so the never saw them.

[cbdo2007]

14. They're impeding on the Edwards family's right to peacable assemble.

Edwards family should sue them.

[AsahinaKimi]

15. I wish a truck would show up ...

And totally spray these people with Chicken Skat. Because that is what they are.

[onecent]

16. Where do these insane people get financial backing to

do all the MISERIABLE ROTTEN THINGS THEY manage to do.

I hope someone shoots one of them...God, I can't believe I said that...but I don't care.. This world is getting crazier by the minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!