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  • Counter-protesters outnumber mourners at soldier funeral in Arkansas

    06/07/2006 3:12:56 PM PDT · by HAL9000 · 32 replies · 1,038+ views
    Associated Press | June 7, 2006
    BEEBE, Ark. (AP) - Counter-protesters worried that members of a Kansas Baptist church would disrupt a soldier's funeral Wednesday exceeded the number of family members and friends who came out to mourn. A counter-protester was detained briefly but no other incidents were reported. Six members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., carrying signs reading "Don't Worship the Dead" and "God Is Your Enemy," gathered near the First Baptist Church of Beebe to protest the funeral of Spec. Bobby West, who was killed by a roadside bomb May 30. Arkansas in April passed a law prohibiting protests within...