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demtenjeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-26-10 03:54 PM
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Bwaha Freddie Phelps gets a taste of his own medicine!!! is a vicitim of picketing
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TOPEKA, Kan. - A Topeka church that has gained notoriety in recent years for picketing the funerals of fallen U.S. soldiers was itself picketed after turning a group of veterans and their families away from its noon worship service.

Veteran Jerry Bacidore and 15 supporters traveled to Topeka from across Illinois to attend a service at the Westboro Baptist Church on Sunday.

They had planned to stand at the back of the church dressed in black, silently representing soldiers who have been killed, Bacidore said in a letter published last week in The Topeka Capital-Journal.

At the last minute, church officials told the veterans' group that they were not welcome to attend, so the group from Illinois picketed nearby.



Read more: http://www.kansas.com/2010/04/26/1286982/illinois-group-pickets-phelpses.html#storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0mF3RvMBD
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