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Ariz. lawmakers seek ban on funeral protests
Arizona lawmakers were rushing to pass a law Tuesday that would protect the families of Tucson's shooting victims from funeral protests.
A couple from a notorious Kansas church demonstrating against gays in San Bruno, Calif., were far outnumbered by counter-protesters.
Two U.S. anti-gay preachers have been banned from entering England, officials said.
A Detroit high school's production of the play "The Laramie Project" will face a protest for the play's controversial messages, a Kansas church group says.
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.
A federal appeals court Thursday temporarily blocked Kansas laws restricting pickets at funerals as their constitutionality is reviewed.
An anti-gay group from Topeka, Kan., announced plans to picket the funerals of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre.
A motorcycle club protected mourners at a U.S. military funeral in Iowa from an anti-gay church that believes war deaths are the result of homosexuality.
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

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A child is seen playing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe on the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Berlin on June 18, 2013. Obama is scheduled to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel and will later speak at the Brandenburg Gate where fifty years earlier, U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" address . UPI/David Silpa