Kansas Church Plans Picket at St. John's Play
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas say they plan to picket outside Saturday night's production of "The Laramie Project" at St. John's Prep.
A Kansas-based church known for its picketing at the funerals of soldiers says it plans to come to Danvers on Saturday evening. Members of Westboro Baptist Church plan to stage a picket outside St. John's Prep on Saturday night, where "The Laramie Project" will be performed. The performance tells the story of Matthew Shepard, a gay college who was murdered in Laramie, Wy. in 1998. The church targets performances with pickets, saying that God hates the United States because of its acceptance of homosexuality. Shirley Phelps-Roper, a Westboro Church spokeswoman, said that as many as six members of the church plan to picket. "It's a propaganda piece," Phelps-Roper said in an phone interview from Kansas. She argued that Shepard was not killed …
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Darren Rozumek
1:29 pm on Saturday, December 1, 2012
In reality, this "church" is actually a large, inbred family that's been using their "protests" as a money making scheme. They try to get their freedom of speech violated so they can sue. This is why he young'uns get sent to law school and they even protest soldiers funerals. Nice family values, huh? more ›