House approves legislation to further blunt hate group's protest of funerals in Alabama (al.com)

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By Bob Lowry, The Huntsville Times

MONTGOMERY, Alabama -- The House approved a bill today aimed at further blunting protests of funerals in Alabama by the controversial Westboro Baptist Church.

The Topeka, Kan.-based church, which routinely protests at the funerals of soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, had threatened to demonstrate at the funerals of the 250 people killed in the tornado outbreak in Alabama last week.

The bill by Rep. DuWayne Bridges, R-Valley, sets a new perimeter of 1,000 feet, or two blocks, for any disruption of a funeral in Alabama. The perimeter had been 500 feet.

Passed on an 87-0 vote, the bill now goes to the Senate.

The church, which runs the website GodHatesFags.com, had earlier threatened to protest the funerals of six people killed in a January tornado in Rolla, Mo., but no one showed up. The church is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery.
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more: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/05/house_approves_legislation_to.html

[Hutzpa]

1. Paper cuts.

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[RKP5637]

2. Disgusting creatures. n/t

[Zorra]

3. More RW fundies being their nasty little selves again. nt

[localroger]

4. Much as I hate to say it, that's unfair to most fundies

Westboro isn't what even the most rabid fundie would consider a "church" in the normal sense. It's a cult and a scam, the scam part being the provocation of already upset people into actions for which they can be profitably sued.