[Between the Lines]

I find it interesting that they call them only an anti-gay hate group. Most groups would have a name, yet no group name is ever given. If the name of that group is Westboro Baptist Church, then print it. I do not mind a particular church being labeled as a hate group, but without a group name, the story sounds as if this is a much larger anti-gay hate group than it really is.

Five years after University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was killed, touching off a national dialogue on gay rights, the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, an anti-gay hate group wants to put up a monument to Shepard’s murder in his hometown. The city doesn’t want it, but it is caught in a legal tangle that involves, of all things, the Ten Commandments.

AT SHEPARD’S FUNERAL in his hometown of Casper, Wyo., Westboro Baptist Church members demonstrated in a park across the street, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps.

Sounds a little different doesn't it? Instead of sounding like a large hate group, it sounds like a kooky little church in Kansas. The media knows how they made it sound and they did it purposefully.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, their official name is "God Hates Fags" or something like that, which is why the media never uses it...

[Puppage]

The media knows how they made it sound and they did it purposefully.

Thank You!!! THAT is EXACTLY the point I have been trying to get across.