Thursday, November 1, 2007

Background on Westboro Baptist

A good, quick backgrounder on the Westboro Baptist Church can be found here in the Chicago Tribune.

While few would doubt the distastefulness of the church's picketing of military funerals, church leader Fred Phelps is quoted in a Reuters story as suggesting that an appeal on First Amendment grounds will have the original verdict thrown out in "a few minutes".

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