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Arizona Legislature Puts Kibosh on Westboro Baptist Protest

The Arizona legislature has passed emergency legislation to prevent members of a church notorious for its anti-gay, anti-Catholic views from disrupting tomorrow’s funeral of a nine-year-old victim of Saturday’s shooting. The Westboro Baptist church in Kansas praised Jared Lee Loughner for killing six people, including Christina Taylor Green and wounding 14 others. The church has [...]

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When Fred Phelps–th­e Pastor of WBC–Reach­es the Pearly Gates

When Fred Phelps–th­e pastor of WBC–reach­es the Pearly Gates: Peter: “Who are you?” Fred: “Fred Phelps, pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church. I demand entry.” Peter: “Hmm. I don’t see your name here. What is it that you did?” Fred: ‘We protested at the funerals of soldiers and little girls who God killed because of [...]

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Westboro Baptist Church Thanks Jared Lee Loughner

It’s often said “Never let a crisis go to waste” – in the case of the Westboro Baptist Church that should read “Never a tragedy go to waste”. The examiner.com are reporting (via the United Atheists Front blog) that the Westboro Baptist Church will picket/protest the funerals for the victims of the Arizona shooting by Jared Lee Loughner.  The WBC [...]

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How I first encountered the Westboro Baptist Church

Back in 2005, I was working at KERN, a Bakersfield California News Talk radio station.  Then PFC Villatoro, Jr. a resident of Bakersfield serving in Iraq was killed by a IED bomb.  That would have been the end of it, a funereal for a fallen serviceman, except a church called the ‘Westboro Baptist Church‘ was [...]

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