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KILLEEN — About 30 Killeen residents quickly gathered Tuesday afternoon to drown out four members of a fringe Kansas church who arrived at Fort Hood to protest the soldiers killed in Thursday’s shootings. The members were from an organization known for picketing at public events and funerals, often those related or peripherally related to gay people or soldiers in the military. On Tuesday, the members stood just outside Fort Hood carrying signs that said things such as “Thank God for dead soldiers” and “God sent the shooter.” Heather Baker, a Killeen resident whose husband is deployed to Iraq, was eating...

Westboro Baptist Church, a Topeka, Kan.-based church known for picketing at the funerals of American troops who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, announced Monday that it would protest at the funeral of Lance Cpl. David Raymond Baker. The funeral for Baker, the 22-year-old Painesville Township Marine who was killed by an improvised explosive device Oct. 20 in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan, is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church in Painesville. Regarding the protest, Painesville police intend to enforce the laws outlined in Ohio Revised Code Section 2917.11, which defines disorderly conduct, Capt. Rick Kline said....

KANSAS CITY, MO. - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Missouri's appeal to allow the state to enforce it's law restricting protests near funerals. The law targeted a Topeka Baptist church that protests military funerals. The Westboro Baptist Church filed a lawsuit against the state after it passed two laws creating a no protest buffer zone around funerals and processions. Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka protests the funerals saying soldiers deaths are God's punishment because of U.S. policy toward homosexuals.

(The link is for info on Pvt. Wm. Long's funeral, FR wouldn't let me link the source for the crap below) From their upcoming protest schedule page: "06/08/2009 09:15 AM - 10:00 AM Conway, AR Harlan Park Baptist - All the lies won't help only hurt 1895 Dave Ward Dr. Are you kidding me? You are really going to have a session of lies and deception over the body of another dead DOOMED american soldier? The ones who survive these wars will stand on the ready to do whatever the Beast Barack Obama tells them to do. So, in reality...

A candlelight vigil has been scheduled for 8 p.m. today at Old Town Square to show support for George Tiller's family and to oppose violence. Dustin Deckard, 20, organized the vigil and is hoping it will be "a quiet show of support for Dr. Tiller and a moment to remember his medical and political triumphs." Deckard, who supports abortion rights, called today's shooting of Tiller "akin to the murder of Harvey Milk," an openly gay California politician who was shot to death in 1978. "With the situation today, I think that what side people are on is the last thing...

The Westboro Baptist Church, whose members tour the country protesting at military funerals because they claim America is tolerant of homosexuality, is thanking God for record flooding in North Dakota. “God sent the flood waters to cover the evil people of Bismarck and Fargo, ND, where you flipped off God and raised your hands against His anointed by criminalizing WBC’s gospel preaching against” gays and their supporters, declared a statement released Wednesday by the church, which is in Topeka, Kan. The statement referred to House Bill 1040, a North Dakota state law passed in January 2007 that bars protestors from...

Monday night’s WBC championship game at Dodger Stadium didn’t exactly serve as a ringing endorsement to the primacy of the major leagues, which has usually been conceded even when the U.S. hasn’t won at tournaments like this one or the Olympics. After all, Japan’s 10-inning, 5-3 win over South Korea was notably short on major league talent. Korea? Its roster included one major leaguer: Shin Soo Choo, of the Cleveland Indians. Japan? It had five players from MLB: Daisuke Matsuzaka (Boston Red Sox, as if you didn’t know), Akinori Iwamura (Tampa Bay), Kosuke Fukudome (Cubs) and Kenji Johjima and that...

There was a troubling refrain from Team USA players on Sunday after a 9-4 loss to Japan in the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic. Japan did the little things, they said, and the United States did not. Japan played with basics and fundamentals; the United States did not.

Members of a controversial Kansas church known for protesting military funerals plan to picket Caylee Marie Anthony's memorial Tuesday.

A Kansas-based church that has blamed deaths in Iraq on U.S. tolerance of homosexuality has asked Gov. Christine Gregoire's office to approve a "Santa Claus will take you to hell" message to display among other religious statements in the Capitol's third-floor hallway.

Leaders of a church that's drawn national controversy for its protests at U.S. military funerals say they plan to picket Friday's services for two Scott County High School cheerleaders and sisters killed in a weekend crash.

Blogger Michael Crook, known for Forsake the Troops and other such sites, pays veterans a little "visit", at a veterans' cemetery in Southern New Jersey. This video is a protest against veterans, and the military pay structure.

I saw this at their vile website. Fred Phelps is at it again. Here is how the flyer goes: NEWS RELEASE God Hates Texas. Yes, indeed. The irreversible curse of God upon fags and fag-enablers - the "botch of Egypt•••that cannot be healed." Ct. 28:27. God is punishing Texas for passing laws against WBC by devastating bus crashes & many natural disasters. Thank God for 13 dead Vietnamese Houstonians in a bus crash bound for idolatry. Pray for many more dead. We will picket their funerals. WBC will picket their funerals in religious protest and warning; to wit: "Be not...

Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church are threatening to picket the funeral of Tim McLean, the young man decapitated on a Greyhound bus last week. The Kansas-based church - a small fundamentalist sect led by Fred Phelps - is reviled in the United States for protesting the funerals of hundreds of soldiers killed in the Iraq war. The sect gained notoriety in the 1990s by picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man beaten to death in Wyoming. Seven members of the church originally planned to picket theatre performances in Toronto and Red Deer, Alta., later this...

It's an AP story but you can go to www.kansascity.com to read article, if interested.

Even Cindy Sheehan concedes this would be too tacky...but the Westboro Cult has never let something small like tact get in the way. I'm not sure how these attention whores twist a heterosexual marriage into an appropriate place to protest homosexuality, but then I don't see how they twist any of the funerals they protest at as appropriate settings either. Anything that will make a headline, I guess. The crowd from the Crawford Texas Peace House may be sitting this one out, but the sanctity of President Bush’s daughter’s wedding Saturday won’t necessarily stop anti-homosexual protesters from the Westboro Baptist...

A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered liens on the Westboro Baptist Church building and the Phelps-Chartered Law office. If the case presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett is upheld by an appeals court, the church, at 3701 S.W. 12th, and the office building, at 1414 S.W. Topeka Blvd., could be obtained by the court and sold, with the proceeds being applied toward $5 million in damages Bennett imposed on church members for picketing a military funeral. A lien is a legal hold on property, making it collateral against money owed to a person or...

BALTIMORE - A federal judge in Baltimore ordered Westboro Baptist Church members to post their church building and nearly $500,000 more in cash and property while appealing a judgment for protesting a Marine’s funeral. The Kansas church members had hoped to avoid posting a bond while delaying payments in the $5 million judgment a jury awarded Albert Snyder, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder who died in Iraq. Westboro church members preach that God kills American soldiers as punishment for the country’s tolerance of homosexuality. They protested Matthew Snyder’s Westminster funeral in March 2006 by waving signs...

TOPEKA | Instead of picketing by members of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, about 400 people targeted the church in a Sunday protest of their own. Organizers said the event drew marchers touting messages of compassion and tolerance for homosexuals. The church is known for its anti-gay message and picketing of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Homosexual, heterosexual and transgender pickets hugged, danced and cheered as passers-by honked their support for the protest at Gage Park in Topeka. Organizer Chris Love of Leavenworth said he got the idea for the march after Westboro members picketed actor Heath Ledger's memorial service.

A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered liens on the Westboro Baptist Church building and the Phelps-Chartered Law office. If the case presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett is upheld by an appeals court, the church, at 3701 S.W. 12th, and the office building, at 1414 S.W. Topeka Blvd., could be obtained by the court and sold, with the proceeds being applied toward $5 million in damages Bennett imposed on church members for picketing a military funeral. A lien is a legal hold on property, making it collateral against money owed to a person or...

Homophobic Church Group to Picket Navy Air Station Members of a radical Kansas church who say God punished three Navy officers killed in the recent helicopter crash are planning to picket outside Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi. Members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church believe God punished the officers because of the sins of the nation. Picketing is set to start at noon Saturday at the main gate at SPID and NAS Drive in Flour Bluff. Church members are expected to carry signs that read "God Hates the Nation," and to thank God for the Jan. 16 helicopter crash that claimed...

People drive across state to celebrate military BY AMANDA HICKEY January 26, 2008 - 10:41PM DAILY NEWS STAFF More than 250 people gathered with U.S. flags and signs showing their support for the military in front of Wal-Mart by U.S. 17 and Western Boulevard on Saturday. More than 100 American flags were waved in the air while signs asked drivers to “Honk if you love the Marine Corps.” Another sign told people that “If you don’t stand behind the troops, stand in front.” The celebration was one of two events — with the other at Jacksonville Commons Park — organized...

Church group draws counterprotest Law enforcment prevents physical interaction BY HEATHER GALE January 26, 2008 - 7:24PM DAILY NEWS STAFFFive people versus 40. The notorious protesting church, Westboro Baptist Church, turned out five women, — two older and three who appeared to be in their late teens or early twenties — to express their viewpoints about the Marine Corps and the circumstances surrounding the death of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach. However, more than 40 counterprotesters were across the street from the church members on Lejeune Boulevard, holding signs and supporting the military. Many of the supporters of the troops said...

WBC to protest Camp Lejeune on Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 12:00 p.m.

Daughter Of Fred Phelps, Westboro Baptist Church Founder, In Court Today by Susan @ 8:04 pm. Filed under ACLU, 1st Amendment, Child Exploitation, News, Fallen Heros Recently we saw Albert Snyder, father of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, take the Westboro Baptist Church, which is no more than a cult disguising itself as a church, to court for disrupting the funeral of his hero Marine son with protests. Then we showed you that the father won his lawsuit and was awarded $11 million dollars in damages. You hear Phelps reaction to that news here and you can see all of Stop...

I am writing about an issue that concerns me greatly. I reside in Southern MN and, like everyone in this area, was shocked and saddened by the recent tragedy that has occurred in Minneapolis. The Phelps Family of the Westboro Baptist Church (or "WBC") in Topeka, KS, the same who picketed funerals of fallen soldiers back from Iraq, plans to picket the funerals of the victims of the bridge collapse. I am severely outraged at this disrespectful display of hate, and I am certain that others would feel the same way were they to know of these plans. I am...

BELLEVUE, Neb. — The Bellevue City Council won't let members of a Topeka church protest next week outside the funeral of a sailor killed in Iraq. Print Reply E-mail A Bellevue permit application form filed Monday with the city said a maximum 15 people affiliated with Westboro Baptist Church wanted to hold a "religious demonstration" on Monday morning near the Bellevue Christian Center. A funeral has been scheduled there for Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey Chaney, 35, a 1990 graduate of Bellevue West High School. The Defense Department says he and another sailor were killed by a roadside bomb last...

Today, protestors from WBC protested the late Rev. Jerry Falwell's funeral in Lynchburg, VA. These are the same people who protest at soldiers' funerals.

Westboro Baptist Church is at it again, this time planning a protest of Jerry Falwell's funeral. Westboro Baptist Church (WBC Chronicles - Since 1955) 3701 SW 12th St. Topeka, Kansas 66604 785-273-0325 GodHatesFags.com Religious Opinion and Bible Commentaw on Current Events Tuesday, May 15,2007 NEWS RELEASE WBC to picket the funeral of Rev. Jerry Falwell - at Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Virginia -in religious protest and warning: "God is not mocked!,, Gal. 6:7. God Hates Fags! & Fag-Enablers! Ergo, God hates Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, and all such Arminian heretic preachers - from fundamentalist evangelicals to openly...

WBC to picket the funeral of Rev. Jerry Falwell - at Thomas Road Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Virginia - in religious protest and warning: "God is not mocked!,, Gal. 6:7. God Hates Fags! & Fag-Enablers! Ergo, God hates Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, and all such Arminian heretic preachers - from fundamentalist evangelicals to openly gay Episcopalians and pedophile Catholics - all of whom have created the Satanic Sodomite Zeitgeist wherein America has irreversibly gone the way of Sodom. There is little doubt that Falwell split Hell wide open the instant he died. The evidence is compelling, overwhelming, and irrefragable....

Earlier this week I told you about the freaks at the Westboro Baptist Church planning a protest at the funerals for those murdered at Virginia Tech. Today I bring you good news, Mike Gallagher has offered them 3 hours of national air time to spew their hate in exchange for them cancelling their planned protest. Here is their press release (which as I said earlier I will not link to):

Fred Phelps and the rest of the psychos at westboro baptist church have announced that they're going to protest the funerals of the Virginia Tech students. Apparently they've officially announced they're protesting at the funeral for Ryan Clark, and all these students have gotten together on Facebook and are planning on standing silently between the protesters and the families at these funerals. I'm not sure if the Patriot Guard is going to be at any of the funerals.

WBC is going to protest the funeral of Tech. Sgt. Scott E. Duffman at 9:15 PM on Friday March 2nd at Arlington National Cemetary. They are going to display their usual hateful signs and their anti-American antics. These creeps are attacking those who gave their lives defending us all, and their families who are suffering from the loss of a loved one.

Pole holds on to WBC Light Heavyweight title 09.10.2006 Polish World Light Heavyweight Champion Tomasz Adamek has once again out boxed his Australian challenger in a bout in Rosemont Illinois over the weekend. The win secures Adamek’s world championship title, not to mention an opportunity to become a Polish boxing legend. Bogdan Zaryn reports Deemed as the fight of the year, Polish World light heavy weight champion Tomasz Adamek won the 12 round fight by decision, out pointing his opponent Australian Paul Briggs. Tomasz Adamek otherwise known as Goral is 31 – 0 with 21 knockouts. After the bout` in...

Get ready for the crazies.

SHirley Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church was just asked by Alan Colmes, "Did those girls deserve to die?", Shirley Phelps-Roper said, "Yes they deserved to die".Sick.sick...sick!..PAGING HENRY BOWMAN! PAGING HENRY BOWMAN!

I can't stand the fact that Westboro baptist church has a website with the name it does. I can't even put it in here, because it is blocked. The church cannot be affiliated with the same God the rest of us worship. Especially when it comes with an agenda. If you want to keep track of it yourself, search for Westboro Baptist Church on google, it's the first webpage with a very vulgar name. I decided I would visit their little website, and see if they were planning anything. Well, guess what? They actually plan their agenda right on their...

I wanted to let you know that I am a Christian, and I am a veteran. I served in the United States armed forces, proudly I might add, protecting the freedom of speech you are currently enjoying. I thought I would let you know that a lot of what you are saying is completely unchristian, and that you are certain to have to answer for your tactics on the day you stand in judgment. You have said that America is doomed... Well, guess what genius, YOU LIVE IN AMERICA TOO!!! So, when you are damning us all, you damn yourself...

The Patriot Guard Riders need help on the afternoon/evening of Wednesday July 12th for a PGR SPECIAL MISSION in Oak Grove, KY for the Ft. Campbell Eagle Remeberance Ceremony. There is a possibility that protestors may try to show up but PGR really wants to do a tremendously positive display at the front gate that will honor America's fallen heroes and they are requesting help.DETAILS FROM THE PGR WEBSITE: "Ft. Campbell and the 101st Airborne Division are holding the monthly Eagle Remembrance Ceremony to honor all 101st Airborne Division soldiers who have been killed in the previous month. July's...

SAN DIEGO -- I don't pretend to know -- or especially want to know -- what lurks in Bud Selig's wildest imagination. It's difficult enough to consider that Selig might actually have a wild imagination. Downright scary, really. But I have to think that in his most out-there fugue state, Selig could never have dreamt that the championship game of the first World Baseball Classic -- he didn't conceive this idea, but it's his baby -- would be played with only two major league players in it. Only two names that would be even remotely recognizable to your average American...

DISGRACEFUL....The U.S.A. goes down 2-1 to Mexico who were the heavy underdog....team U.S.A. with all of its heroes manages to lose to Canada...Korea...and Mexico...and is eliminated. The country that created baseball goes home.We lose with the greatest players available against day laborer baseball players.What is it with american super teams...the U.S. olympic hockey and basketball teams....and now this disgrace.

South Korea humbles US in Baseball Classic By Steve Keating Tue Mar 14, 2:06 AM ET South Korea beat the United States 7-3 on Monday to maintain their unbeaten run at the World Baseball Classic and leave America's title hopes in jeopardy. Lee Seung-yeop and Choi Hee-seop both homered as the Koreans moved to the top of the group standings with a mark of 2-0. Dazzling defense, solid pitching and timely hitting have moved South Korea to 5-0 for the tournament. The U.S. slipped to 1-1, leaving the tournament favorites facing a possible must-win game against Mexico in their final...

Biker group stands guard Patriot Guard Riders converge; protesters are no-shows ANDERSON, Mo. - Like silent sentinels, more than 100 bikers stood in the cool, drizzly rain for nearly two hours Saturday to show their respect to a fallen soldier. Much like a military formation, the motorcyclists trooped up a hill in Anderson toward Ozark Funeral Home to honor Army Pfc. Christopher L. Marion, 20, of Pineville, who died Feb. 22 in Iraq. Clad mostly in black leather, some carried U.S. flags. Many wore patches and insignia representing years of military service. But, not all were veterans. Nor did any...

The "God Hates Fags" Left By Mark D. Tooley FrontPageMagazine.com | February 9, 2006 He started out by demonstrating at the funerals of AIDS victims. He demonstrated at the funeral of the young homosexual, Matthew Shepard, who was murdered in Wyoming. For reasons somehow relating to homosexuality, he demonstrated at the funerals of Frank Sinatra, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, William Rehnquist, and children’s program host Mr. Rogers. He warned Senator Pat Moynihan beforehand that he would be demonstrating at his funeral, too. Now he is demonstrating at the funerals of U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq to celebrate the deaths...

On Friday, November 11, 2005, a hate group that calls itself the "Westboro Baptist Church" decided to protest the funeral of fallen soldier PFC Tyler Mackenzie, who was killed in Iraq from an IED. The funeral was held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Ladder Day Saints in Greeley. If you are not familiar with this group, you can see their website to get all the gory details. Here is their schedule for future "protests". Even though PFC Mackenzie was not gay, this group randomly protests soldier's funerals, holding up signs that say things such as "Thank God for...

(AP) GREELEY, Colo. The funeral for a soldier from Evans killed while serving in Iraq was held on Friday, Veterans' Day. Pvt. 1st Class Tyler Ryan MacKenzie, 20, died Nov. 2 when a roadside bomb blew up south of Baghdad near the Humvee he and his fellow soldiers were riding in. MacKenzie was assigned to the First Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, Second Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. He was the first Weld County resident killed in the Iraq war.

OPERATION HERO ALERT: Funeral Services for Army Major Gerald M. Bloomfield, IICounter-Protest of WBCFriday, 11/11/2005*Stemm-Lawson-Peterson Funeral Home - Elkhart, IN OPERATION HERO is spreading word of a planned picket by Westboro Baptist Church during the visitation for Army Major Gerald M. Bloomfield II. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing during the visitation for Major Bloomfield on Friday, November 11 in Elkhart, IN. This anti-Troops/anti-war "liberal" hate group will be protesting at 12:45pm - 1:30 pm* outside the Stemm-Lawson-Peterson Funeral Home, located at 1531 Cobblestone Blvd. *Please note there are conflicting times posted at the WBC website....

OPERATION HERO ALERT: Funeral Services for Army Pfc. Tyler MacKenzieCounter-Protest of WBCFriday, 11/11/2005Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - Greeley, CO OPERATION HERO is spreading word of a planned picket by Westboro Baptist Church during the funeral services for Army Pfc. Tyler MacKenzie. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing during the funeral service for Pfc. MacKenzie on Friday, November 11 in Greeley, CO. This anti-Troops/anti-war "liberal" hate group will be protesting from 11:30am - 12:00pm outside The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, located at 501 49th Avenue, in Greeley. MacKenzie's funeral service...

OPERATION HERO ALERT: Funeral Services for Army Spc. Benjamin A. SmithCounter-Protest of WBCFriday, 11/11/2005*Bethel Luthern Church - Hudson, WI OPERATION HERO is spreading word of a planned picket by Westboro Baptist Church during the funeral services for Army Spc. Benjamin A. Smith. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church will be picketing during the funeral service for Army Spc. Smith on Friday, November 11 in Hudson, WI. This anti-Troops/anti-war "liberal" hate group will be protesting at 10 am outside the church, located at 920 3rd Street. Please show your support for this hero! Info about Army Spc. Benjamin A. SmithHudson...