Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Fred Phelps' Westboro Church headed to Ripon, WI Wednesday


My travels have taken me to the small central Wisconsin town of Ripon, best known as the place where the Republican Party was founded in 1854.

Tomorrow the town faces the likely arrival of a hate group, Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church.

Two funerals will take place in Ripon tomorrow for soldiers killed in Iraq: Sgts Michael Wendling and Andrew Wallace will be laid to rest.

Westboro's disgusting flier is here.

Last week Phelps' "vile cult of losers" attempted to disrupt a soldier's funeral in Yakima, WA.

An editorial about that event can be found here.

UPDATE 11:00 PM CDT: Our good friend in Wisconsin, Tee Bee, has posted this on his blog, Guide to Midwestern Culture, and he's cross posted it on the Badger Blog Alliance too.

If Phelps shows up, he'll be confronted with by a crowd of patriotic Americans. Thanks Tee Bee!

Also, for those not familar with Ripon, it's pronounced "Rippin."

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