Fred_Phelps - PROTEST AT FUNERAL OF U.S. SERVICEMAN

PROTEST AT FUNERAL OF U.S. SERVICEMAN

A protester with the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS, chants as the funeral procession for U.S. Army Pvt. Peter Navarro pulls up to the St. Clare of Assisi Catholic Church in Ellisville, Mo on December 23, 2005. The group led by the Pastor Fred Phelps. protests at the funerals of U.S. servicemen and women claiming that God is punishing those that fight in the Iraq war. Navarro was killed by a roadside bomb on December 13 in Iraq. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)


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LONDON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Two U.S. anti-gay preachers have been banned from entering England, officials said.
OTTAWA, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. Christian sect planning to protest the Canadian funeral of a man beheaded on a Greyhound bus will be turned back at the border, officials said.
WONDER LAKE, Ill., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A Baptist group led by the Rev. Fred Phelps will protest the funerals of two victims of the Illinois campus shootings saying it was God's revenge against gays.
TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 14 (UPI) -- A national U.S. motorcycle group has begun sending its members to military funerals being picketed by a publicity-hungry evangelical anti-gay group.
WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- President George W. Bush signed a bill Monday intended to force members of a Kansas church to stop targeting military funerals with anti-gay demonstrations.
LANSING, Mich., April 19 (UPI) -- The Michigan state House passed a bill prohibiting protests from taking place within 500 feet of funerals.
CHICAGO, Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Lawmakers in at least five states are trying to stop a Baptist pastor from demonstrating at funerals of Iraq war dead. The Rev. Fred Phelps and members of his Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church say the deaths are God's punishment for U.S. toleranc
CARBONDALE, Ill., Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn is promoting legislation to limit political protests at funeral services in the state.
SANTA FE, N.M., March 25 (UPI) -- Authorities and church officials in Santa Fe, N.M., were preparing for an announced protest by followers of a strident anti-gay activist.
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