Fred Phelps and his “God hates fags” crowd might end up going broke: A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $10.9 million in damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine who died in Iraq after church members cheered his death at his funeral. Church members said Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s […]
About time someone did this: The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from a fundamentalist Kansas church filed an invasion-of-privacy suit against the demonstrators Monday. It is believed to be the first lawsuit brought by a serviceman’s family against Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., whose members routinely demonstrate at […]
Last week I posted a story of a soldier, Adam Shepherd, who died in Iraq from an unknown illness. His cousin is a friend of our families and was in attendance at his funeral. At the funeral, Fred Phelps had his goons fromgodhatesfags.com out in full force picketing and showing their lack of contempt for […]