Kansas anti-gay group pickets Alabama churches [View All]

[Judi Lynn]

Kansas anti-gay group pickets Alabama churches

The Associated Press
October 18, 2004


A Kansas-based anti-gay group ended a series of protests in Alabama with a demonstration outside a church that conducted the funeral of a slain gay man.

The Rev. Fred Phelps, pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., sent a group from his congregation to picket in Montgomery, Mobile and Bay Minette over the weekend.

Phelps' daughter, Margie Phelps, led the protests, waving signs with slogans such as "God hates fags," "God hates America," with some linking natural disasters and terrorist attacks to tolerance of homosexuals and others showing stick figures copulating.

The Phelps' group waved signs at members of the Crossroads Church of God, which conducted the funeral for 18-year-old Scotty Joe Weaver, who was beaten, stabbed and strangled by assailants on July 18.
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