http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/westboro/ en-us Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:47:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046877/posts On one side of Bragg Boulevard on Wednesday, American flags whipped in the wind, from toothpicks, from veteran’s hands, from the top of a pole attached to a pickup.On the other, American flags were being dragged on the ground.On one side, Army wives, veterans and bikers held signs that read "I Love My Soldier," "Our Husbands, Our Heroes," and "God Loves The World."On the other, four members of Westboro Baptist Church — including a 22-year-old woman and 7-year-old boy — held signs that read “God is Your Enemy” and "America is Doomed." The child’s read: "God Hates the U.S.A."The two... Fayetteville Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046877/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:47:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045648/posts A Kansas church well-known for its protests at the funerals of fallen American soldiers plans to picket at this week's funeral of former Press Secretary Tony Snow, declaring that Snow is "a very bad monkey" who is "now burning in hell." "He had a platform, he was given some small talent by his Creator. He was an unfaithful steward, and is now residing in hell," says a schedule on the website of the Westboro Baptist Church. "Each opportunity he had to faithfully report what the servants at WBC had to tell this country/world, Tony Snow besmirched and vilified the words... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045648/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:25:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045171/posts The creeps from the Westboro Baptist Church are planning to protest Tony Snow's funeral: Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045171/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:04:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045055/posts Dear God, please let the Patriot Guard Riders know about this ahead of time. The Phelps gang is ready to strike, and they outline their intent here. MsUnderestimated.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045055/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:16:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434908/posts Free Republic Exclusive Fred Phelps, leader of the "God-hates-faXs" movement, is planning on crashing the funeral of one of our War Dead on July 4th. Why? To spread his message of anti-homosexual SPAM in the most inappropriate way imaginable. There's a time and a place for everything. He's a publicity whore, as far as I'm concerned. Here are snips from an earlier FR Report: "A SF SGT E-5, James Stewart, will be buried in St. Petersburg, Florida on July 4, 2005. It's wholly appropriate that he be buried on our nation's birthday, because Sergeant Stewart gave his life for our... Several Sources Linked http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1434908/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jul 2005 21:11:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011893/posts BALTIMORE - Two members of the Westboro Baptist Church have failed to post bonds needed to delay the collection of a $5 million jury award while their case is being appealed. As of 5 p.m. Monday, the deadline imposed by a federal judge, Shirley Phelps-Roper and Rebekah Phelps-Davis had not posted their bonds of $125,000 and $100,000. The women had argued in April for lesser bond amounts. The jury award followed a finding in November that the Kansas church intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., by protesting the Maryland funeral for Snyder's son. Marine Lance Cpl.... Carroll County Times / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011893/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2008 12:49:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2011527/posts Hi all, several years ago those of you who were around FR might remember a band of young rocker brothers who did a song "Hateful Lies" that skeweed Michael Moore. Well, the band is still around, and has just released a music video for its new song "Westboro", inspired by the lunacy of the WBC. We thought some of you might be interested, if so the video can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD0oSIyBUBQ. If you like their music video, let them know please, they have a myspace at http://www.myspace.com/attilahuns. FYI, here are the lyrics: Westboro, words and music by Andrew O'Donnell... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2011527/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 18:31:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998351/posts The family and friends of two teenagers who died in a car accident over the weekend are puzzled as to why a fundamentalist church group plans to demonstrate at the teens’ funerals. Tracey Burke, whose daughter Emily died in the crash near Finksburg late Saturday night, said she doesn’t understand the logic of Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church unless its members, "are just people of hate." "It makes no sense," Burke said. "I can’t believe they’d choose to [demonstrate at] the funeral of a child." Julio Calderon, whose brother Rodolfo Calderon also died in the crash, said he was... Carroll County Times, MD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1998351/posts#comment Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996616/posts BALTIMORE - A federal judge in Baltimore ordered Westboro Baptist Church members to post their church building and nearly $500,000 more in cash and property while appealing a judgment for protesting a Marine’s funeral. The Kansas church members had hoped to avoid posting a bond while delaying payments in the $5 million judgment a jury awarded Albert Snyder, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder who died in Iraq. Westboro church members preach that God kills American soldiers as punishment for the country’s tolerance of homosexuality. They protested Matthew Snyder’s Westminster funeral in March 2006 by waving signs... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996616/posts#comment Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:08:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992737/posts It's expected hundreds will attend the funeral services for the Sueppel Family, and it's likely there will be an outside presence there--for an entirely different reason. Westboro Baptist church--a controversial group based out of Topeka Kansas-- travels state to state protesting at high-profile funerals for their own cause. Now comes word the group plans to be outside the Sueppel services, when emotions will no doubt be running high. The religious group, led by Reverend Fred Phelps-- plans to be outside The Sueppel family funeral, simply because it's expected to be a large gathering. KCRG-TV9, Cedar Rapids, Iowa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992737/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:03:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988814/posts ORLANDO, Fla. -- Members of a nationally known church will be picketing outside of several Central Florida churches on Easter Sunday with a message pastors say is more about shock value than God's words. A group from the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church has announced they will be outside Easter services at St. Luke's United Methodist, First Baptist Church, Calvary Assembly of God and Mary Queen of the Universe churches early Sunday. Westboro church members said they believe school shootings, 9-11 and solider deaths are "God's revenge" for America's moral decline and tolerance for homosexuality and abortion. "This nation is awash... local6 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988814/posts#comment Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:41:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982249/posts Westboro gang to picket funerals: 03/09/2008 2:15 PM - 3:00 PM Athens, GA First United Methodist Church 327 Lumpkin St. Funeral of Eve Carson 03/09/2008 4:45 PM - 5:30 PM Marietta, GA Temple Kol Emeth 1415 Old Canton Rd. Funeral of Lauren Burk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982249/posts#comment Sat, 8 Mar 2008 01:10:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964121/posts Thousands waited outside the Flour Bluff entrance to Naval Air Station-Corpus Christie, expecting a confrontation with the members of the Westboro Baptist Church members, but they never came. The crowd instead showed support for U. S. Soldiers. KRISTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964121/posts#comment Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:06:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962429/posts LDS President Hinckley's funeral has been targeted as a protest site by members of the Westboro Baptist Church. Members of the Topeka, Kan., church have picketed several military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. The group issued a press release Monday saying members will picket President Hinckley's funeral. In 2007, a federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland, awarded $10.9 million to a father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by members of the Westboro Baptist C Church members showed up at the soldier's funeral chanting derogatory slogans... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962429/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:59:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961214/posts Jacksonville, North Carolina, January 26, 2008— The NC Gathering of Eagles sponsored an Operation to demonstrate support for and celebrate the American Military. Hundreds of people came to Jacksonville, from all over North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina and West Virginia.They spread out along Highway 17 waving American and Marine flags and holding signs proclaiming respect, admiration and gratitude to the men and women of the United States Military. GOE National Director, Larry Bailey reports: In response to the pitiful gathering of Westboro Baptist Church miscreants near Camp Lejeune, NC, on 1/26/08, the North Carolina chapter of Gathering of Eagles organized... Gathering of Eagles, North Carolina Chapter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961214/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:38:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960049/posts Three of the members from the “Westboro Baptist Church” dared to enter Nevada today to picket at the funeral of one of our fallen soldiers. The family of Staff Sergeant Sean Gaul was holding an open memorial service for their fallen son today at 11:00am in Reno, NV. The three scum were met by over 200 Patriot Guard Riders and FReepers. They stayed for about 10 minutes and then fled to their car about 500 feet from their original site across the street from the Church, where the services were being held. None of the family or attendees was exposed... Mad_as_he$$ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960049/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:54:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958387/posts Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka said that she and other members will picket Ledger’s United States memorial services, not those held in his native Australia. “You cannot live in defiance of God,” she said. “He got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it’s OK to be gay.” A press release circulated by the church references Leviticus 18:22 in the Bible, which states that “thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958387/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:30:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950394/posts Today's memorial for a Parkville family killed in a drunken driving crash in Ohio was protested by a group that was recently ordered to pay millions for protesting the Westminster funeral of a soldier killed in Iraq. Three members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, known for protests at military funerals, were demonstrating about a block from St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, the site of the service... The Baltimore Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950394/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:05:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1937809/posts A True Crime Update on current ongoing true crimes plus some old ones pop up again. Seems beautiful sexy teacher Deb LaFave is back in the news. She had sex with a young boy and was supposed to keep a low profile. Well she didn't. Plus more on the kooks in the Westboro Church, and, no surprise, Aruban murderer Joran Vandersloop gets off again. The Omaha mall shooting, a toddler that saved her mother's life, and Mike Huckabee's hero, an Arkansas rapist who, once Huckabee jumped through hoops to free him for one rape, promptly went out and raped and... The Kaitlyn Mae Book Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1937809/posts#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:17:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936368/posts <p>A federal appeals court Thursday sided with a Kansas woman who believes that God’s hatred of homosexuality requires her to picket funerals for American soldiers holding signs that read “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “God Blew Up the Troops.”</p> The Swamp/The Baltimore Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936368/posts#comment Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:34:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936370/posts A federal appeals court Thursday sided with a Kansas woman who believes that God’s hatred of homosexuality requires her to picket funerals for American soldiers holding signs that read “Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “God Blew Up the Troops.” Shirley Phelps-Roper is part of a Topeka, Kan. church that contends God is punishing the United States for permitting homosexuality by killing soldiers. In response to a August 2005 protest by Phelps-Roper and other members of her church at the funeral of Army Spc. Edward Lee Myers in St. Joseph, Mo., the Missouri legislature passed a par of laws that... Baltimore Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1936370/posts#comment Fri, 7 Dec 2007 22:38:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929941/posts 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... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929941/posts#comment Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:44:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921634/posts PAPILLION, Neb. - Shirley Phelps-Roper and her attorney want to know exactly why she has been criminally charged for protesting at a Bellevue soldier's funeral in June, so they can challenge the charges. Phelps-Roper and her attorney, Bassel El-Kasaby, asked a Sarpy County judge Monday to order prosecutors to spell out in writing why she is charged with flag mutilation, negligent child abuse, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and disturbing the peace. They say the details of those charges will be important to Phelps-Roper's defense. "This case clearly raises some substantial constitutional issues," El-Kasaby said. Phelps-Roper is a... Columbus Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921634/posts#comment Tue, 6 Nov 2007 14:05:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919839/posts A fundamentalist Kansas “church” notorious for protesting at the funerals of troops killed in Iraq was ordered Wednesday to pay $10.9 million in damages to the father of a fallen Marine. The Westboro Baptist Church believes that U.S. deaths in the Iraq war are punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality and appeared last year at the funeral for Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, bearing signs that read: "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags.” A nine-member federal jury found members and three leaders of Westboro – Fred Phelps and his two daughters, Phelps-Roper and Rebekah Phelps-Davis –... The Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919839/posts#comment Fri, 2 Nov 2007 02:00:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919596/posts -- Members of a fundamentalist Kansas church ordered to pay nearly $11 million in damages to a grieving father smiled as they walked out of the courtroom, vowing that the verdict would not deter them from protesting at military funerals. Members promised to picket future funerals with placards bearing such slogans as "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags." "Absolutely, don't you understand this was an act in futility?" said Shirley Phelps-Roper, whose father founded the Westboro Baptist Church. The group believes that U.S. deaths in the Iraq war are punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.... WRAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919596/posts#comment Thu, 1 Nov 2007 17:41:58 GMT