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And again, the Westboro nutters prove their value to the LGBT movement. A Manhattan synagogue turned a visit from hate-spewing demonstrators into a lucrative fund-raiser Sunday. Leaders of Congregation Beth Simchat Torah, a West Village synagogue that caters to gays and lesbians, didn’t want to ignore a planned visit by members of the rabidly anti-gay and anti-Semitic Kansas-based Westboro Baptist …

Westboro Baptist Church claims that it will picket NYC gay synagogue Congregation Beth Simchat Torah this Sunday at its Bethune Street location. The synagogue responds: CBST will be holding a non-violent prayer vigil and service during the time of their protest. We cannot allow this group to go unchallenged as they engage in hateful speech at our synagogue. The most …

Blogger Gossip Boy picked up on a bizarre (even for them) posting on one of Westboro Baptist Church’s sites that seems to hint that the sect is planning some kind of mass suicide similar that done by Jim Jones’ People’s Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. An excerpt from the post: BECAUSE IT’S ALMOST TIME TO LEAVE…THAT’S WHY DUMMY! We are particularly …

Yesterday the Westboro Baptist Church picketed the White House in their continuing national tour to drum up support for the LGBT movement. Every time they appear, thousands more come to our side. Go Westboro!

Wait until the music starts. (Via – The Chaser Blog)

The Supreme Court has upheld a ruling by a Wyoming court that the Westboro Baptist Church may not install a “monument” to Matthew Shepard in a city park. The Casper City Council did not violate the First Amendment when it allowed a Ten Commandments statue in Monument Plaza but did not permit a statue from an anti-homosexual pastor, according to …

The Phelps must be spreading themselves thin to be both at the Oscars and yesterday’s funerals in Buffalo. But no matter, Westboro came through for us and camera crews from media outlets around the world once again noted the persecution of homosexuals by the religious right in America and the need for LGBT equality. And I’m sure after Sean Penn …

Lead by the local gay activism group OUTSpoken For Equality, hundreds of Buffalo’s citizens blocked Westboro Baptist Church picketers from the view of mourners attending the funerals of residents killed in last week’s horrific plane crash. Westboro’s “Planes Crash, God Laughs” signs were blocked by the now-traditional angel wings invented by Romaine Patterson at Matthew Shepard’s funeral.

Westboro Baptist Church’s Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper have been banned from entering the UK. Just yesterday we learned of their plans to protest a British staging of the Matthew Shepard play, The Laramie Project. Two members of the Westboro Baptist Church, an American religious sect which calls for homosexuals to be killed, have been banned from entering …

Westboro Baptist Church says they are going to the UK to protest a production of the Laramie Project. The Telegraph asked Shirley-Phelps Roper why they are coming. “You KNOW his word – you had great light in your land in the 1600s with the vast array of John’s (Knox, Bunyan, Brown, Gill, Trapp, etc., etc.) and you have Bible’s everywhere! …

Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas has a Gay and Straight Alliance club and last year elected an openly gay homecoming king. And yesterday, hundreds of its students poured into the streets to counter-protest the Westboro Baptist Church. The school’s administration and principal worked with local police and dismissed classes so that these hundreds of beautiful future …

The Westboro Baptist Church has been given permission to picket Barack Obama’s inauguration. NBC reports that the US National Park Service has granted Westboro Baptist Church a permit to protest on Inauguration Day, January 20th. 15 members will be in a corner of John Marshal Memorial Park on the north side of Pennsylvania Avenue. This year the inauguration parade will …

After the Westboro Baptist Church nutters slithered into Silverton, Oregon yesterday, a supportive crowd of counter-protesters showed up to rally for their newly-elected transgender mayor. The counterprotesters outside City Hall in this Marion County town today significantly outnumbered the protesters who inspired them: three young women and a man from a Kansas church, here to register their disdain with the …

Wow. Somebody at Florida’s Stonewall Legal Alliance is sharp. After the backers of Amendment 2 declined to appear at an FIU debate on the issue, the gay side invited the Westboro Baptist Church. And they are coming, over the objections of some marriage equality supporters. A church known for spewing anti-gay rhetoric and picketing military funerals is slated to debate …

Citing laws against hateful acts, Canadian border officials turned back members of the Westboro Baptist Church yesterday, saying that they may not enter the country to make their planned protest at the funeral of the man murdered on a Greyhound bus last week. Members of an anti-gay group which describes itself as a church have been barred from entering Canada, …

The Westboro Baptist Church was set on fire this weekend (only minor damage, pity) and the Crypt Keeper blames “fags and fag enablers.” Oh, and while the fire department put out the fire, church members picketed them. Seriously. These loonbags are the best thing to happen to gay rights, like, ever.

Fred Phelps and his Westboro loonies will be picketing at San Francisco City Hall today to picket the wedding of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, the couple that was first to marry there back in 2004 and who will repeat their history ceremony legally today at 5:00PM. But in a way, having a raving nutjob like Phelps there may actually …

If any NYC-based activists are of a “two birds, one stone” mind, the Westboro loonies will be at Ground Zero on Saturday at 8:30AM to protest Ill Papa’s presence. And then they’ll pack up their box of crazy and head to Yankee Stadium to protest the mass-Mass that Ratnazinger will conduct at 11AM. I can’t wait to see how the …

A federal judge has placed a lien on the church and law offices of the Westboro Baptist Church, as a result of the recent multi-million dollar lawsuit won by the father of an American soldier whose funeral Westboro picketed. If the case presided over by U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett is upheld by an appeals court, the church, …

In what some had billed the “Million Fag March”, hundreds of protesters marched on the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka yesterday. Hundreds of people from Kansas and across the country gathered Sunday in Topeka to protest Pastor Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church. The march was also a way to promote peace, love, and equality. People of all ages, …