Phelps' Group Protests At Soldier's Funeral

[Democracy White]

Sorry if this is old news, but I just found it on Yahoo!

Members of the Rev. Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., are picketing military funerals, KMBC's Micheal Mahoney reported Friday.
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The group has made national headlines for traveling throughout the country to picket gay churches, gay weddings, and the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who was murdered in Wyoming in 1998.

Friday, about 15 members of the group -- some of them children -- picketed the funeral of a St. Joseph soldier who was killed in
Iraq. Mahoney reported that the group stood across the road from the Grace Evangelical Church during the funeral of 21-year-old Spc. Edward Myers.

"The first sin was being a part of this military. If this young man had a clue and any fear of God, he would have run, and not walked, from this military," said protester Shirley Phelps-Roper. "Who would serve a nation that is godless and has flipped off, defiantly defied, defiantly flipped off, the Lord their God?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/kmbc/20050805/lo_kmbc/2866367

Dee

[WildClarySage]

1. One of these days someone's going to be pissed off enough

to shoot phelps, and I hope someone else gets video of it...

[Up2Late]

6. That's the #1 reason that I will NEVER by a Gun of any kind

If I ever did, I'm sure I would lose it and shoot this guy, if I had a gun and this guy ever came to my town.

[Democracy White]

7. I think I would go down to where the protest is

and just consider it free entertainment.

Dee

[noamnety]

2. Phelps and eminent domain

These are the only two issues I know where we agree with the freepers.

[SpecialK84]

3. This was at my family's church ...

... and they were hysterical about the very idea of this all day. I tried to reason with them that idiots like this are the minority of the minority and only register on the scale when we actually bother to pay attention to their idiocy ... but, as usual, they didn't pay me any attention.

I honestly believed my uncle was going to go to prision today for killing one of them ... which would have just brought the whole thing full circle. *sigh*

[DanCa]

4. Phelps is truly a rabid inbreed

I don't know why he's allowed to walk the streets. Btw I bet this closet case was never in the service either.

[alphafemale]

5. Maybe follow the Phelps clan around with a BIG ASS SCREEN?

They are such an embarressment to Bipeds.