According to Rebecca Rooney, organizer of the Weston, MO counter protest, the Westboro Baptists are also lawyers who file lawsuits against those who obstruct them during their activities. So don’t do anything actionable around them and they may fade away...
There is a case dealing with them in front of SCOTUS right now. It’s already been heard and I assume judgment will come down in the spring. I trust the Roberts Court.
Yeah, the founder, Fred Phelps was once a prominent civil rights lawyer. He has something like 11 children and 9 of them are lawyers - something like that. But I can’t believe that they are all making a living as lawyers if they are on the road protesting. I wonder how they pay for all of that protesting, travel, hotels, food, etc.