[Peace-discuss] Westboro Baptist and NIU

[Marti Wilkinson]

This is the church that has taken to protesting at funerals of Iraqi
soldiers, threatened to picket the services for Health Ledger, and garnered
attention when they picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard.

What is really amazing is the leader of this 'church' Fred Phelps actually
practiced as a civil rights attorney before being disbarred. Somewhere along
the line his wiring short circuited.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:03 PM, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:

> At 02:43 PM 2/15/2008, Wendy Edwards wrote:
>
> >Just as a heads-up, the infamous Westboro Baptist Church (as in
> >godhatesfags.com) is planning to show up at NIU in the wake of the
> >shootings to "protest" at memorials.  Some counter-protests are planned.
> >Here's the WBC flyer:
> >
> >
> http://www.godhatesfags.com/written/fliers/20080214_northern-illinois-university-shooter.pdf
> >
> >Wendy
>
>
> Ugh.  I had never seen that web site before.  It makes me literally
> nauseous just to read it.
>
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