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A Kansas church that attracted natnwi attentn for s angry, anti-gay protts at the funerals of U.S. ary members has won s appeal at the Supreme Court, an issue ttg the petg nstutnal rights of ee speech and privacy.

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GAY-HATG WTBORO CHURCH PROTTS KY. CLERK WHO DENIED SAME-SEX MARRIAG

Anti-gay Wtboro Baptist Church is attackg Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who ref to issue same-sex marriage licens — for alleged adultery. * westboro baptist church anti gay *

Wtboro Baptist — the Kansas church known for s vilently anti-gay agenda — has wad to the ntroversy over the Kentucky urt clerk who ref to issue same-sex marriage licens fiance of urt is takg aim at Kim Davis, who has gone to jail for refg to allow gay people to marry on the basis that would vlate her Christian beliefs.

Wtboro, or WBC, is notor and wily srned for picketg funerals for service members of victims and mass shootgs to draw attentn to s "God Hat Fags" argument that God is punishg Ameri for acmodatg homosexualy. Apparently, ABC News n't tell the difference between opponents of gay marriage and hateful, anti-Amerin bigots. Soldiers are dyg bee of Ameri's support for homosexualy.

ABC VIO OF HATEFUL WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH TO ILLTRATE OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE

Apparently, ABC n't tell the difference between opponents of gay marriage and hateful, anti-Amerin bigots. * westboro baptist church anti gay *

"Yet, Moran announced, "For opponents of gay marriage, the very fabric of our society is at stake.

A pro-gay rights gunman stormed the anizatn's headquarters Washgton and shot a secury rt of Moran's segment featured Edie Wdsor, an elrly gay woman who is at the center of opposn to the Defense of Marriage than the ne sends given to the FRC, the story was totally Saturday, Moran followed-up on the story for "Good Morng Ameri.

" He sisted that, if the Supreme Court's lg were to e ten years om now, the cisn uld be lopsid for gay marriage.

EQUALY HOE VANDALIZED WH ANTI-GAY GRAFFI, BULLET HOL

Four years after she fled her fay's gay-hatg Wtboro Baptist Church, Libby Phelps-Alvarez's journey is far om plete. * westboro baptist church anti gay *

"Are the journalists at ABC News pable of discerng the difference between a prcipled opposn to gay marriage and a ge group like Wtboro Baptist Church?

The Equaly Hoe Topeka, Kansas, which stands directly across the street om the notorly anti-gay Wtboro Baptist Church, has been a symbol of the LGBTQ rights movement sce was first pated Pri flag lors March of 2013. He lled the police, and once they had arrived, they found the anti-gay slurs on the hoe. When you have hate groups and anizatns claimg that gay men are perverts and pedophil, 's no surprise when they get attacked wh baseball bats, " he said.

The sight of anti-gay protters om Wtboro Baptist Church late Sunday outsi his show at Topeka Performg Arts Center prompted standup edian Tom Segura to pledge to donate $10, 000 to the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ suici preventn announced on Instagram the donatn prr to his are seven other tim Wtboro Baptist Church protts have search for SpockWBC protters proved unable to picket the 2015 funeral of Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy bee they uldn't fd , The Guardian reported. "The church posted a Twter update lamentg s abily to picket the event, which said was due to a lack of publicy over the lotn, " that webse Topeka rtrants offer outdoor seatg, pat dg for those wantg h airPhelps-a-ThonAn LGBTQ+ rights group, Drivg Equaly, raised more than $4, 600 through a "Phelps-a-Thon" held 2008 as WBC protted a productn at the Boston Center for the Arts of the Laramie Project, a play illtratg reactns to the 1998 murr of openly gay Wyomg llege stunt Matthew Shepard.

US URT ALLOWS WTBORO BAPTIST'S ANTI-GAY FUNERAL PICKETS TO GO ON

Five people were charged wh crim that allegedly victimized WBC grabbg a burger at Bobo’s to hikg Burt’s mound, here are 9 Topeka experiencA human chaAbout 200 people 2016 formed a human cha to block the ma street downtown Orlando, Fla., and unteract WBC picketers who me to that cy after 49 people were killed and 53 more wound at a gay nightclub by a gunman, whom police then shot to ath. A vio subsequently posted on YouTube showed the band performg a song ntag referenc to homosexualy ont of the picketers on a float pulled by a tck. Typified by s slogan, “God Hat F---, ” WBC is known for s harsh anti-gay beliefs and the c signs s members rry at their equent protts.

WBC specializ anti-gay vrl. " Acrdg to the group, Ameri has damned self through s tolerance of homosexualy, and God is punishg the untry by flictg tragedi on s cizens.

WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH FECTOR STGGL WH HER PAST FOUR YEARS AFTER SHE FLED HER FAY’S GAY-HATG WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH, LIBBY PHELPS-ALVAREZ’S JOURNEY IS FAR OM PLETE. BY JENNY DEAM, LOS ANGEL TIM MAY 20, 2013 7 AM PT FACEBOOKTWTERSHOW MORE SHARG OPTNSSHARECLOSE EXTRA SHARG OPTNS FACEBOOK TWTER LKEDIN EMAIL COPY LK URLCOPIED!PRT WTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH FECTOR STGGL WH HER PAST LIBBY PHELPS HOLDS UP A PROTT SIGN WHILE PICKETG AT A SOLDIER’S FUNERAL WICHA, KAN., 2007. (MEGAN PHELPS-ROPER) COLUMN ONE DEFECTOR OM ANTI-GAY CHURCH STGGL WH HER PAST

The plat alleged that Phelps vlated legal ethil nons bee of the extreme vrl she directed toward gays and lbians on a rad show. 12, 1998, gay stunt Matthew Shepard died of juri flicted a btal hate crime Laramie, Wyo. The group matas that God is punishg Ameri for toleratg homosexualy and persecutg WBC.

ANTI-GAY CHURCH'S RIGHT TO PROTT AT ARY FUNERALS IS UPHELD

In Febary 2009, the group planned to travel to Bra to prott a stagg of "The Laramie Project, " a highly rpected play that documents the hate murr of gay stunt Matthew Shepard and how the cint impacted the muny. One of the most tted church groups Ameri n ntue to picket ary funerals after the supreme urt led favour of their right to ee fervently anti-gay Wtboro Baptist church monstrat at ary funerals across the US claimg the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are God's punishment on Ameri for toleratg urt cisn, at the end of a classic ee speech bate, will anger ary fai who have turned up for servic to fd the group wavg plards rejoicg the aths and who want other fai to be spared the same supreme urt led eight to one favour of Wtboro a se brought by Albert Snyr, father of a 20-year-old mare, Lance-Corporal Matthew Snyr, who was killed Iraq 2006 and buried Maryland.

Among the plards was one scribg mar as "fags" group has turned up to about 200 ary funerals, regardls of whether the ad are gay or not: Snyr was not.

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The anti-gay protts by Topeka's Wtboro Baptist Church backfired .

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