Friday was another bad day for the Reverend Fred Phelps and his vehemently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church.
In Oklahoma, Gov. Brad Henry signed a bill placing banning protests within five hundred feet within a funeral. On the same day, Governor Mitch Daniels signed a virtually identical bill.
Phelps and his kooks believe God is celebrating the death of each American soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan because of American acceptance of homosexuality--they make their beliefs know by showing up at soldiers' funerals with signs such at the ones in the picture.
The septuagenarian minister plans to test new laws, so it could be an interesting week for the Reverend Phelps. He's planning a funeral protest in Kokomo, Indiana on Monday. On Tuesday, the Westboro group plans to travel to Oklahoma's panhandle for another protest.
It'd be interesting to know the stand of the the Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes on Fred Phelps and his group--or on similar legislation working its way through the Illinois statehouse. The commission has at least one gay member, Rick Garcia. But fellow member Claudette Muhammad of the Nation of Islam, belongs to a group whose leader, Louis Farrakhan, in a speech a week ago accused "Hollywood Jews" of "promoting lesbianism, homosexuality" and other "filth."
Previous Marathon Pundit post on funeral protest legislation:
Missouri bans funeral protests in reaction to Phelps' Wesboro
Baptist Church
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