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    The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas, that was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps...
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    Westboro Baptist Church carries out daily picketing in Topeka, Kansas, and travels nationally to picket the funerals of gay victims of murder or gay-bashing...
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    Megan Phelps-Roper (category Former members of the Westboro Baptist Church)
    activist who is formerly a member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church, a Hyper-Calvinist Christian sect, widely regarded as a hate group...
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    Fred Phelps (category Westboro Baptist Church)
    minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church, worked as a civil rights attorney, and ran for statewide election...
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    Nathan Phelps (category Former members of the Westboro Baptist Church)
    left his family home when he turned 18, and permanently left the Westboro Baptist Church four years later in 1980. He has since publicly censured the group...
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    Shirley Phelps-Roper (category Westboro Baptist Church)
    lawyer and political activist. She was the lead spokesperson of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, an organization that protests against homosexuality...
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    Lauren Drain (category Former members of the Westboro Baptist Church)
    member of the Westboro Baptist Church who wrote the 2013 book Banished, which chronicles her experiences and eventual banishment from the church. Drain was...
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  • "Anonymous warns Westboro Baptist Church to stop with the hate" (Salon). Salon.com. Retrieved February 21, 2011. Westboro Baptist Church (February 19, 2011)...
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  • outrageous. On March 10, 2006, seven members of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), led by the church's founder Fred Phelps, picketed the funeral of U.S....
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    by progressive/liberal activists and pro-labor unionists. The Westboro Baptist Church, which achieved notoriety for protesting homosexuality at various...
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  • Denounce Latest Westboro Stunt". Retrieved September 9, 2012.[dead link] "About Westboro Baptist Church". God Hates Fags. Westboro Baptist Church. Archived...
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    up and protested Westboro Baptist Church. Meade is one of three high schools in Maryland to be protested by the Westboro Baptist Church, the other two being...
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  • The Most Hated Family in America (category Westboro Baptist Church)
    the core of the Westboro Baptist Church. The organization was led by Fred Phelps and located in Topeka, Kansas. Westboro Baptist Church members believe...
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  • likely to rape or sexually abuse fellow soldiers. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church have been interviewed many times on the show, including one incident...
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  • writes sketch comedy, is known for interviewing members of the Westboro Baptist Church, and appeared as a guest and recurring comedic correspondent on...
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    Be Picketed By Westboro Baptist Church". The Huffington Post. "About Westboro Baptist Church". God Hates Fags. Westboro Baptist Church. Archived from...
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    performed a parody song in front of a protest by the Westboro Baptist Church. It mocked the church's opposition to homosexuality and was performed in the...
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  • the ex-member of Westboro Baptist Church, and Elissa Wall, who wrote about her experiences after leaving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of...
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    Equality House (category Westboro Baptist Church)
    situated on the corner of 12th and Orleans Street, across from Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-LGBT hate group. The property was purchased by Aaron Jackson...
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  • Surviving America's Most Hated Family (category Westboro Baptist Church)
    family at the core of the Westboro Baptist Church and observes how its members have changed since the 2014 death of the church's founder, Fred Phelps. The...
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  • their love of Satan” in public schools. After this event, the Westboro Baptist Church came to Boston, where Jarry and Greaves lived, to picket the funerals...
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  • a rainbow-colored home located directly across the street from Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-LGBT group. In 2016, members of Planting Peace walked...
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  • publicly claimed various online attacks, including hacking HBGary, Westboro Baptist Church, and Gawker. They have also claimed responsibility for the defacing...
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  • America's Most Hated Family in Crisis (category Westboro Baptist Church)
    written by Louis Theroux, who revisits the family at the core of the Westboro Baptist Church. It is a follow-up to 2007's The Most Hated Family in America,...
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    activist Shirley Phelps-Roper and about 15 other members of the Westboro Baptist Church, an organization widely considered a hate group, protested his...
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    debunked. The website's disclaimer page gave the address of the Westboro Baptist Church as its primary location. Paul Horner, the owner of the site, claimed...
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    States have been picketed by followers of Fred Phelps from the Westboro Baptist Church. They are portrayed in the play picketing Matthew Shepard's funeral...
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  • Landover Baptist Church is the website of a parody fundamentalist Baptist church. The church lampoons fundamentalist, Independent Baptist churches and Biblical...
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    the Westboro Baptist Church and It Was Beautiful". Slate. Kreps, Daniel (August 13, 2015). "Watch Foo Fighters Rickroll Westboro Baptist Church". Rolling...
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  • were an important factor that led to the murder. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, led by Fred Phelps, received national attention for picketing...
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