THE TELEGRAPH: The fundamentalist US church notorious for picketing the funerals of dead soldiers plans to carry out its first protest in Britain this week, it has emerged.
Followers of the virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church have threatened to picket a sixth form college in Basingstoke, Hampshire during a staging of The Laramie Project, a play about an American youth murdered because of his sexuality.
The church from Topeka, Kansas is mainly composed of relatives of the founder, pastor Fred Phelps, who style themselves "the most hated family in America".
Their core belief – that God will punish the West for its acceptance of homosexuality – has seen them protest at dozens of servicemen's funerals brandishing garish placards stating "God hates the USA" and "Thank God for dead soldiers".
Details of the church's first picket in Britain was posted on their website with the slogan "God Hates England; Your Queen Is A W----".
"Some of the best Bible preaching in the history of the world came out of that dark dismal land, but now it is full of all abominations," the notice read. Westboro Baptist Church Announces First Anti-homosexuality Picket in Britain >>> By Matthew Moore | Monday, February 16, 2009
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