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  • Fundamentalist U.S. church could picket McLean funeral (Fred Phelps Is At It Again)

    08/05/2008 9:44:59 PM PDT · by Ptarmigan · 25 replies · 357+ views
    National Post ^ | August 05, 2008 | Mary Vallis
    Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church are threatening to picket the funeral of Tim McLean, the young man decapitated on a Greyhound bus last week. The Kansas-based church - a small fundamentalist sect led by Fred Phelps - is reviled in the United States for protesting the funerals of hundreds of soldiers killed in the Iraq war. The sect gained notoriety in the 1990s by picketing the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man beaten to death in Wyoming. Seven members of the church originally planned to picket theatre performances in Toronto and Red Deer, Alta., later this...