Reply #8: I call them the "Branch Fredphelpsians" for a reason...

[regnaD kciN]

Membership at Westboro is restricted to Phelps, his wife, his fourteen children, and their spouses and kids. They all live on one block in Topeka, which they've turned into a church compound. Putting it mildly, they fit every definition of a cult rather than a religious denomination.

By the way, this isn't the first time they've been picketed. When they protested the Episcopal Church general convention in 1997, they found themselves getting counter-protested by a group representing Baptists. (Phelps was kicked out of the Baptists decades ago, and they were protesting his continued use of their name connected to his group.)