[Peace-discuss] Westboro Baptist and NIU

[Wendy Edwards]

Yeah, I've heard that they're pretty much a bunch of attention whores  
who make money by suing people.  But it would still be unfortunate if  
they showed up in DeKalb, or anywhere else for that matter.

On Feb 15, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Marti Wilkinson wrote:

> 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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