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In an astonishing display of common sense the Klu Klux Klan has releasd a statement repudiating the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church, denying any connection or sympathy with the hate group. The Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for the phrase "God hates fags", is best known for its protest activities, which include picketing funerals of fallen soldiers. The church runs numerous Web sites such as GodHatesFags.com, GodHatesAmerica.com and others expressing condemnation of homosexuality. The group bases its work around the belief expressed by its best known slogan and the address of its primary Web site, God Hates Fags, asserting that...

THEY came under cover of darkness like the night riders of the old Ku Klux Klan. They drove down the back roads of rural Alabama, looking for wooden churches in forest clearings. When they found them, they kicked in the doors and set them alight. Four Baptist churches scattered 15-20km around the tiny town of Boligee, near the Mississippi border, were burnt in this manner this week. All had black congregations. Five churches in Bibb County, farther to the east, were destroyed or badly damaged by fire last Friday. Of those, four had predominantly white congregations and the fifth was...