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	Members of Westboro Baptist Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since there are very few members outside of the Phelps and Hockenbarger clans, and with the exception of the Drain family few new members have joined, the clans have begun to marry each other, resulting in a form of inbreeding.
		This means that Brent Roper is both the "brother" and husband of Shirley; that Samuel Phelps is the brother-in-law and nephew of Rachel Phelps; and that Rachel Phelps is the aunt and sister-in-law of Samuel Phelps.
		Transcripts of Westboro sermons from the 1980s show that she was a "favorite" of Phelps and acted as his personal assistant; the reasons for the later disassociation with Phelps Sr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Members_of_Westboro_Baptist_Church (1856 words)

	Westboro Baptist Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Westboro holds a vision of the apocalypse which is unique to their theology and based heavily on point #6 above, that when the end of the world comes, all the souls of men and women will be brought into a celestial courtroom with God presiding as judge.
		In their WBC Epics, Westboro members declare that they are the last line of defense against the true forces of evil in the world and will be the sole survivors of Judgment Day; when that time comes, they will be recognized as God's Chosen and the rest of the world will be cast into Hell.
		Westboro does not discriminate against groups opposed to the Iraq War when it comes to its hatred: the church has also said anti-war activist and Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan is going to join her son in Hell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church_(Topeka) (9553 words)

	SBC president, chaplains denounce military funeral protests - (BP) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Members of Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kan., picket a military funeral in McKenzie, Tenn., in late July.
		Westboro Baptist is made up of 100-200 congregants meeting in the basement of Phelps’ home, which sits in a large fenced compound occupied by nine of his thirteen children and their spouses.
		Approximately 75-100 of the church’s members are related to Phelps by blood or marriage, according to research done by the Topeka Capital-Journal in 1994.
	www.bpnews.net /bpnews.asp?ID=21487 (1062 words)

	News from Agape Press
		Members of the church have outraged grieving families by carrying picket signs that say God is punishing America for its acceptance of homosexuality.
		Westboro Baptist has only about 75 members, most of them belonging to the extended family of the church's pastor, Rev. Fred Phelps.
		In the wake of numerous demonstrations by Phelps and his church members over the past several months, bills aimed at stopping the picketers' protests at funerals have been proposed in various states.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/2/72006f.asp (488 words)

	ABC News: Military Funeral Protests Outrage Families, Lawmakers
		Members of Westboro Baptist Church protest at a military funeral.
		Members of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., have outraged family members and communities alike with their antics.
		Shirley Phelps-Roper, a lawyer for the church members and daughter of its leader, the Rev. Fred Phelps, said the group was ready for a First Amendment fight.
	abcnews.go.com /US/Politics/story?id=1728788&page=1 (374 words)

	Military funeral protests targeted
		Members of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka say they believe that the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq are God's way of punishing the United States for taking too lenient an attitude about gay people.
		Over the years, however, members of the church have been arrested at other protests, including some at funerals of people who are gay or died of AIDS.
		The church was founded by the Rev. Fred Phelps and is made up largely of members of his family.
	www.courier-journal.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051025/NEWS02/51025001 (697 words)

	billingsgazette.com
		HELENA -- Members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., brought their anti-gay message to Helena churches Sunday, but their message was drowned out by the songs and laughter of 200 other demonstrators.
		As one member of the Westboro group tried to get a rise from people entering the Cathedral, the bells in the steeple began to chime, drowning out her words.
		Churches in Boulder and Basin canceled services to join the counter-protest, and John and Linda Lewis arrived from Great Falls to stand against the Westboro group.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/02/14/build/state/45-antigaychurch.inc (382 words)

	firstamendmentcenter.org: news
		The Rev. Fred Phelps, the church's leader, contends American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays.
		The church is not affiliated with a larger denomination and is made up mostly of Phelps' children, grandchildren and in-laws.
		Six members of the Westboro Baptist Church dragged U.S. flags on the ground and shouted insults at Doyle's surviving family members outside a mortuary in Martinsville, about 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis.
	www.firstamendmentcenter.org /news.aspx?id=16064 (1324 words)

	Group drowns out words of hate at soldiers' funerals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Church members are known for their antigay protests.
		Most of the supporters were members of the Patriot Guard, a motorcycle group with nearly 22,000 members formed in October to shield families from protesters and to honor fallen soldiers.
		Jackie Sandler, a member of the Patriot Guard, drove to Grand Ledge from her home in Ft. Wayne, Ind. Her son, Keith, is a member of the 101st Airborne stationed in Iraq.
	www.freep.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006603280372 (1040 words)

	commercialappeal.com - Memphis, TN: Mid-south News
		About six members of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., demonstrated at the Capitol complex, bearing signs reading "Thank God for dead soldiers," and "America is doomed." Members claim that soldiers in Iraq are being killed because of tolerance for homosexuality in the United States.
		Members of Westboro Baptist Church on Tuesday also picketed the funeral of 20-year-old Marine Corporal David A. Bass of Nashville, who was killed in Iraq this month.
		The church members marched on the opposite side of the street from the funeral with signs that read, "God is watching." Minister Ricky King asked mourners to ignore the protesters and remember that Marines like Bass died protecting the rights of all people, even Westboro's members.
	www.commercialappeal.com /mca/midsouth_news/article/0,1426,MCA_1497_4614367,00.html (402 words)

	Governing: View
		Westboro Baptist Church members have been in and out of court, fighting disorderly-conduct arrests or challenging local legal efforts to restrain their behavior.
		The church members are true believers who care little for civility, much like a famous Kansan who lit some of the fires that consumed the country in civil war.
		Comparing Westboro Baptist Church’s noisy picketing to John Brown’s violent absolutism on the issue of slavery may not be fair, but the Rev. Jerry Falwell himself condemned the church’s picketing of the funeral of Matthew Shepard, the gay University of Wyoming student who was beaten to death last year.
	www.governing.com /view/vu051500.htm (575 words)

	Kansas church protests war, homosexuality in OKC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Church members were protesting a proposed law that would ban protests two hours before and after funerals.
		Modzelewski said he did not understand Westboro Baptist’s overall goal clearly, except they “do the most despicable act that can be done,” referring to their picketing at funerals.
		Members of Westboro Baptist chanted “IED, IED,” in reference to Improvised Explosive Devices, the weapon of choice that the insurgency in Iraq uses.
	www.ocolly.com /new_ocollycom/new_site/read_story.php?a_id=28219 (1446 words)

	Missoulian - Western Montana's News Online
		About 60 church members travel the country picketing and protesting at universities that they say have agendas that are pro-gay.
		Westboro Baptist Church and its leader, the Rev. Fred W. Phelps, operates a Web site, godhatesfags.com, in which it asserts that all gay people and their supporters will go to hell.
		Members of the UM Lambda Alliance, the UM student gay and lesbian group, will carry on with a planned candlelight vigil and celebration on the mall in front of the Adams Center with a human chain of people wearing rainbow T-shirts holding hands from the Law School to the field house during the picket.
	www.missoulian.com /articles/2003/05/06/news/local/news03.prt (525 words)

	The Leaf Chronicle - www.theleafchronicle.com - Clarksville, TN
		Brown, a Smyrna wife and mother of four children, said she was outraged after reading in newspapers Thursday that members of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., would demonstrate against homosexuality at today's 2 p.m.
		The Kansas church, which isn't affiliated with a larger denomination, consists largely of the children, grandchildren and in-laws of founder the Rev. Fred Phelps.
		Members contend America has been co-opted by gays and that God's wrath is rightfully killing soldiers who are fighting to defend a nation that defies the Bible.
	www.theleafchronicle.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050827/NEWS01/508270311/1002 (810 words)

	Anti-gay church sparks free-speech fight - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Westboro gained national notoriety at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who died after two men lured him from a bar, beat him and tied him to a fence outside Laramie, Wyo., in October 1998.
		The church’s 75 members, most of whom are related to Phelps, seize upon disasters and calamities, including roadside bombs in Iraq, the attacks of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the recent mining deaths in West Virginia, as God’s punishment for a country that tolerates gays.
		While many of Westboro’s early protests were ignored, the group’s protests at military funerals have caused outrage.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12071434/from/RSS (993 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Group plans to picket play at school
		Shirley Phelps-Roper, attorney for the church and the fifth of 13 children of the founder, said her organization has contacted Metro Police to report that between 10 and 15 of the church's 100 members will protest peacefully.
		Church members have protested at a number of events and have scheduled protests around the country through May.
		"They (church members) have a right to protest on the sidewalk in front of the school, and we cannot interrupt that," Couthen said, noting that keeping the peace during the protest is the top priority.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2004/may/06/516811955.html (610 words)

	Kansans to stage anti-gay protests - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Local - News
		Members of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., who have staged anti-gay demonstrations around the country in recent years, are coming to Dracut, Lexington, and Lowell next week.
		Church representatives said they are coming in response to what they consider the promotion of homosexuality in schools and churches.
		Phelps said the church received several anonymous e-mails and phone calls from Dracut residents who were upset that the essay was chosen as the best one.
	www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2005/05/22/kansans_to_stage_anti_gay_protests?mode=PF (791 words)

	Fundamentalists come from Kansas to protest Araujo trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Members of Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., said they would be spreading their message -- that homosexuality isn't the will of God -- in front of the Hayward Hall of Justice, where the three men are on trial.
		Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of the church, said an undisclosed number of members, likely less than 10, want to spread their message.
		The church came to the Tri-City area at that time only to protest the play and not to disrupt Araujo's funeral, Phelps-Roper said -- adding that she regrets that they didn't.
	www.rickross.com /reference/westboro/westboro19.html (426 words)

	Westboro Baptist Church - dKosopedia
		The Westboro Baptist Church, is an independent religious organization based in Topeka, Kansas, headed by minister Fred Phelps.
		The members of Westboro Baptist Church explain their decision to use the word fag, a largely pejorative term for male homosexuals, in their FAQ:
		Westboro Baptist's theology does not reflect the Christian mainstream, and that vast majority of churches (if they have even heard of them) denounce the group's activities.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Westboro_Baptist_Church (492 words)

	SPLCenter.org: A City Held Hostage
		And if, as some say, the city and church have grown more tolerant of one another in recent years, credit may be due as much to Phelps' intimidation as to any success by the city or its inhabitants in leashing his mad-dog tactics.
		Its members have traveled from San Francisco to Canada to New Hampshire preaching "the Bible's hatred," advocating the death penalty for homosexuals and picketing the funerals of gay aids and murder victims, most visibly that of Matthew Shepard in Wyoming.
		The most striking aspect of Westboro Baptist pickets is the relentlessly personal nature of their taunts.
	www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=421 (1062 words)

	The Daily News Journal - www.dnj.com -
		The funeral in Smyrna was one of two funerals protested by Westboro Baptist Church on Saturday.
		Katie Stilts, who stood proudly across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church protesters said she was ashamed the group considered themselves Baptists.
		Promptly at 2 p.m., members of Westboro Baptist Church picked their flags up off the ground and put them in the trunks of three cars, along with their signs.
	dnj.midsouthnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050828/NEWS01/508280310/1002 (814 words)

	LGBT Unity Rally (January 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Westboro church members also wanted to protest several churches whose pastors have opposed the gaystraight alliance, but who the Westboro church believes have been too timid in their criticism of the alliance and homosexual activity, Phelps said.
		Alliance members said the presence of the Kansas protesters and the school board's ban on clubs have gained them support from those who previously opposed the alliance.
		Church members were in Lexington in November to protest the baptism of quadruplets who were adopted by a gay couple.
	www.youth.org /loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/States/Kentucky/rally.html (1037 words)

	Preaching hate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Lest you think the Rev. Phelps is just some backwater homophobe preaching on the fringe of the pulpit, consider this: Each year, his Westboro Baptist Church -- the centerpiece of a family compound in Topeka, Kan. -- spends about $250,000 airlifting him and his followers, mostly family members, to hot spots on the gay-rights front.
		On Friday, 20 or so members of Westboro Baptist Church will show up in Dallas to picket the United Methodist Judicial Council, which will be meeting here to consider the church's position on homosexual marriage.
		And when he went to Tulsa this summer to picket a gay rights picnic and Oral Roberts University and several churches, he did so at the invitation of Rev. John Lee Clary, who was an official of the KKK before becoming a minister with the Independent Assemblies of God.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/aol-metropolitan/98/08/02/gay-protest.2-1.html (1155 words)

	Hate or Love (Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka visits UNC)
		Members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., descended on the university, and the students united against them — first while they picketed in front of University Center and then during a public forum.
		Some organizers who brought the Westboro group to UNC feared that students wouldn’t be able to contain their anger with the group’s controversial message.
		The message members of Westboro Baptist Church brought to UNC was clear during their picket in front of UNC.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/767563/posts (4172 words)

	Hampton Union Editorial: Ignore church's message of hate
		The little boy was among the 12 members of the Westboro Baptist Church who recently protested the academy's decision last May to allow gays and lesbians to serve as dormitory parents.
		Everyone is entitled to their own set of beliefs, but the Westboro Baptist Church needs to have some respect for human life.
		When Exeter police and PEA security learned that the Westboro Baptist Church would be bringing its message to Exeter, they knew they had to take the matter seriously.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2000news/hampton/h12_5_e1.htm (356 words)

	Anti-Gay Protestors (November 2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The members of Westboro Baptist Church - not including its 71-year-old pastor, Fred Phelps, - came to Phillips Exeter Academy to demonstrate against the school's decision to allow openly gay men and women to serve as dormitory parents.
		The students at the academy decided earlier to steer clear of the church protesters and, instead, held a diversity festival of music and food in the school auditorium.
		Sam Phelps, a 21-year-old, said he is serving as the church spokesman this day because his grandfather, Fred Phelps, was preaching Sunday in the Westboro church and unable to make it.
	www.youth.org /loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/States/NewHampshire/antigay.html (649 words)

	97-3385 -- Phelps v. Barbara -- 10/07/1998
		Westboro Baptist Church, No. 94-CV-967, a civil action filed on June 13, 1994 in the Third Judicial District Court, Shawnee County, Kansas.
		St. David's Episcopal Church (St. David's) filed the action seeking to prevent members of Westboro Baptist Church (Westboro) from harassing or assaulting members of St. David's as they entered the church.
		Phelps' father, stated on a Topeka radio program known as the "Old School Baptist Hour" that Judge Barbara had acted immorally and unlawfully in his private life and in a manner which reflected on his fitness to be a law professor.
	www.kscourts.org /ca10/cases/1998/10/97-3385.htm (1372 words)

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