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  • $11 million verdict brings scrutiny of Phelps finances

    11/24/2007 7:44:20 AM PST · by Non-Sequitur · 200 replies · 280+ views
    Kansas City Star ^ | 11/24/07 | David Klepper
    TOPEKA | Countless flights across the country. Car rentals, gas money, food and lodging. All those cardboard signs. For the 71 members of Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church, the costs of doing business must add up. And those costs could soon grow a lot higher. A Maryland jury recently ordered Westboro to pay nearly $11 million to the father of a fallen soldier whose funeral was the subject of one of Westboro’s protests. Many hope the lawsuit, and future ones like it, will put the notorious church out of business for good. It’s something that new funeral picketing bans, now...