Westboro Baptist Church!
Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. (born November 13, 1929) is a so called American pastor heading the Westboro Baptist Church, an independent Baptist church based in Topeka, Kansas.. Phelps is a disbarred lawyer, founder of the Phelps Chartered law firm, a past civil rights activist in Kansas, and a so called “Democrat” who has five times been an unsuccessful candidate for political office in the Kansas. (No party is safe from the likes of Phelps).
Phelps and his followers frequently picket various events, especially military funerals, gay pride gatherings, high-profile political gatherings, performances of “The Laramie Project”, and even Christian gatherings and concerts with which he had no affiliation, arguing it is his sacred duty to warn others of God's anger. In response to Phelps' protests at military funerals, President George W. Bush signed the “Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act” into law in May 2006, and, in April 2007, Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius signed into law a bill establishing a 150-foot no-picketing buffer zone around funerals.
I would personally like to see, in fact support, Phelps and his supporters wrapping themselves in the American Flag as a protest! But only if they use gasoline to start the fire! that engulfs them. (It burns faster and cleaner than most other fuels.)
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