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Fremont Tribune
February 15, 2018
A group of Fremont residents are planning to host an anti-hate rally Sunday morning in anticipation of Westboro Baptist Church members picketing three ... The church, located in Topeka, Kan., is nationally known for its members' radical, hateful comments regarding homosexuals, Jews, military members,ÃÂ ...
Washburn Review
February 6, 2018
For her first speaking appearance in Topeka since leaving the Westboro Baptist Church in 2012, Megan Phelps-Roper decided that Washburn University, her alma mater, was the right place to go. In an event hosted by the Washburn Center for Teaching Excellence and Learning, Phelps-Roper talked aboutÃÂ ...
WIBW
February 5, 2018
Megan Phelps-Roper returned to Topeka Monday night to speak at Washburn University about loving your enemies. "Knowing that I'm here in this place with the people in the city that has born the brunt of Westboro's wrath for going on 27 years now," said Phelps-Roper. "I was worried. I was anxious".
Southernminn.com
February 4, 2018
Deborah Phelps-Davis and Isaiah Phelps-Roper, members of the anti-LGBT Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, demonstrate Sunday outside Trinity Lutheran Church in Owatonna. (William Morris/People's Press). By WILLIAM MORRIS wmorris@owatonna.com. OWATONNA — “The message ofÃÂ ...
Nonprofit Quarterly
January 26, 2018
The practice has a longer history, of course, Some readers may remember that in 2011, in response to being picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church, comedienne Lisa Lampanelli vowed to send $1000 to Gay Men's Health Crisis for each protestor that showed up at her performance in Topeka. In the endÃÂ ...
SouthFloridaGayNews.com
January 23, 2018
Shortly after the Pink Mass, Greaves and Satanic Temple members held a transgender dance party outside the Westboro Baptist Church building in an attempt to see if the church could take what they dish out. “I just happened to be there. I was already speaking in Kansas City, so then we went to TopekaÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 19, 2018
The Westboro Baptist Church announced the pickets on a flyer released on Christmas Day. The Topeka-based church known for its anti-LGBT rhetoric called Shawnee Mission East and Olathe Northwest high schools “cesspools” filled with problems it has long proclaimed are plaguing the country: gayÃÂ ...
Southernminn.com
January 18, 2018
Shirley Phelps-Roper, left, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Topeka, Kan., holds a protest sign outside the April 2006 funeral services for Sgt. Daniel Sesker in Ogden, Iowa. Westboro Baptist Church announced Wednesday by press release that it intends to demonstrate at Owatonna HighÃÂ ...
School Constructions News (blog)
December 27, 2017
Waner's experience is par for the course for those who express sympathies with the LGBTQ community due to the district's proximity to Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., which is known for its vociferous anti-gay protests. The religious organization attempted to demonstrate at the school inÃÂ ...
Wisconsin Gazette
December 26, 2017
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, which is known for its anti-gay protests, demonstrated briefly in November but were outnumbered by counter-protesters. Waner told The Wichita Eagle on Facebook messenger that students and the community want the tradition back. “I've heard a fewÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
December 23, 2017
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, which is known for its anti-gay protests, demonstrated briefly in November but were outnumbered by counter-protesters. Waner told The Wichita Eagle on Facebook messenger that students and the community want the tradition back. "I've heard a fewÃÂ ...
Omaha World-Herald
November 27, 2017
Supreme Court won't take up Westboro Baptist Church's challenge, leaves in place Nebraska funeral protest law. By Martha Stoddard ... State lawmakers passed the law in response to public outrage over the picketing of military funerals by members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas.
Orlando Sentinel
October 23, 2017
A handful of protesters from the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church showed up Monday morning at Valencia College's west campus and on Sunday morning at several churches in Seminole County, law ... Westboro, based in Topeka, Kansas, gained notoriety in the mid 2000s for picketing military funerals.
90.5 WESA
October 4, 2017
Fred Phelps Jr., of Topeka, Kansas, with the Westboro Baptist Church holds a sign in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. ... Protesters from the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church plan to march through Pittsburgh's Oakland and Downtown neighborhoods ThursdayÃÂ ...
Cincinnati.com
September 6, 2017
At UC, Westboro took issue with the university's LGBTQ center, and its problem with the country's largest African-American denomination is its acceptance of other religions, including but not limited to Judaism and Islam. Westboro member Jennifer Phelps-Roper said the Topeka, Kansas-based church wasÃÂ ...
Cincinnati.com
September 4, 2017
Based in Topeka, Kansas, Westboro Baptist refers to the National Baptist Convention as "false prophets … a social organism … filled with wickedness." Westboro says it takes specific issue with the Baptist Convention's Articles of Faith, writing on its website that the denomination "pretend(s) to show respectÃÂ ...
Cincinnati.com
August 28, 2017
A Topeka, Kansas, church is planning to protest what it calls a gay-based club at Oak Hills High School. Demonstrators from Westboro Baptist Church plan to gather in front of the school Wednesday, Sept. 6, according to a flier posted on the church's website. The flier refers to a Gay Straight Alliance at theÃÂ ...
Topeka Capital Journal
August 15, 2017
Westboro Baptist Church members holds picket signs in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., where the group hopes to return with objections to Nebraska's funeral ... The notorious, Topeka-based hate group has picketed about 600 funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Topeka Capital Journal
August 15, 2017
Westboro Baptist Church members holds picket signs in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., where the group hopes to return with objections to Nebraska's funeral ... The notorious, Topeka-based hate group has picketed about 600 funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Omaha World-Herald
August 11, 2017
Members of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church are known for condemning homosexuality and contending that natural disasters, terrorist attacks ... Friday's ruling stated that members of Westboro Church have a First Amendment right to speak, but that right is “not absolute” and that someÃÂ ...
Manhattan Mercury
December 8, 2017
Imagine Westboro Baptist Church demanding The Mercury run a full-page ad that says “God Hates Fags” — the well-known mantra of the Topeka church once headed by anti-gay activist Fred Phelps. The court, in this theoretical exercise, has already held that consumers have a right to extend a message ...
Hornet
December 7, 2017
Everyone's favorite group of hateful idiots are coming to the big screen! Rod Lurie will be directing Hate (A Love Story), a Westboro Baptist Church movie. The film will look at the Snyder v. Phelps Supreme Court case over the WBC's habit of picketing funerals. In 2006, the WBC flew from Topeka, Kansas to ...
Variety
December 6, 2017
“(Hate) A Love Story” is the second feature project in development about the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka,, Kan., one of the nation's most recognized hate groups, best known its anti-gay rhetoric. In August, Marc Webb was attached to direct “This Above All,” based on the true-life story of former ...
Sun Sentinel
November 13, 2017
Recently on public radio, I heard a TedX talk by Megan Phelps-Roper, formerly of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. She used to be one of those protesters holding hateful signs like “God Hates Fags” at the funerals of U.S. service members. Having grown up in the Westboro family, Phelps-Roper ...
Newsday
November 13, 2017
Recently on public radio, I heard a TedX talk by Megan Phelps-Roper, formerly of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. She used to be ...
STLtoday.com
November 9, 2017
Recently on public radio, I heard a TedX talk by Megan Phelps-Roper, formerly of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. She used to be ...
Wichita Eagle
November 8, 2017
Racist flyers were found on campus in September, and last month an anti-gay slur associated with Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church was found written on a concrete column in the Bosco Plaza, outside the Student Union. The most recent incident, anti-black graffiti painted on a car last week, turned out to ...
Gospel Herald
November 7, 2017
Megan Phelps-Roper grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church, ... "I grew up on the picket line, picketing every single day in Topeka, Kansas ...
Christian Post
November 5, 2017
(Screenshot: National Geographic)"The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman" features Megan Phelps-Roper, granddaughter of Westboro Baptist ...
Advocate.com
November 3, 2017
... LGBT voters against the Westboro Baptist Church, to rally a group of ... Westboro Baptist Church headquartered down the road in Topeka, the ...
Topeka Capital Journal
November 1, 2017
District 7 Topeka City Council candidates Aaron Mays, Ping ... of Topeka, we are still known as the home of the Westboro Baptist Church.”.
Mirror.co.uk
October 20, 2017
Westboro Baptist Church has one overriding belief - if you're not part ... told they were moving from Florida to Topeka in Kansas to start afresh.
ABC News
October 19, 2017
The Topeka, Kansas, church protests such funerals because they say God is ... Instead, despite the Westboro Baptist Church threat, there were ...
Wisconsin Gazette
October 13, 2017
The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church clan plans to picket the funeral ... Fred Phelps in Topeka, Kan., has for years picketed LGBT events and ...
CMU The Tartan Online
October 9, 2017
The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a Baptist church and declared hate group based in Topeka, Kansas. Known for its hate speech against ...
PGH City Paper (blog)
October 6, 2017
... through Oakland to counter the arrival of members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Pittsburgh on Thu., Oct. 5. ... Westboro, a Topeka, Kan.
90.5 WESA
October 4, 2017
Fred Phelps Jr., of Topeka, Kansas, with the Westboro Baptist Church holds a sign in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, ...
SW News Media
October 2, 2017
Some speculated they were with the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kansas. The congregation is infamous for its anti-gay protests ...
PJ Media
September 28, 2017
The late Fred Phelps Sr., founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, displays one of his many infamous protest signs. (AP Photo/The Topeka ...
Cincinnati.com
September 6, 2017
At UC, Westboro took issue with the university's LGBTQ center, and its problem with the country's largest African-American denomination is its acceptance of other religions, including but not limited to Judaism and Islam. Westboro member Jennifer Phelps-Roper said the Topeka, Kansas-based church was ...
Topeka Capital Journal
August 15, 2017
Westboro Baptist Church members holds picket signs in front of the U.S. ... The notorious, Topeka-based hate group has picketed about 600Â ...
The Christian Times
December 31, 1999
The U.S. Supreme court has refused to consider an appeal filed by the Westboro Baptist Church, which is challenging a Nebraska law that prohibits ... The 2006 law was passed in response to public outrage over the picketing of military funerals by members of the Topeka-based church, according to ...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines
December 31, 1999
Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church had filed suit against the 2006 Nebraska measure prohibiting protests within 500 feet of a cemetery or church before and after a funeral. The Supreme Court said it would not take up the church's challenge to the state law. Westboro members are known for protesting ...
Omaha World-Herald
December 31, 1999
Supreme Court won't take up Westboro Baptist Church's challenge, leaves in place Nebraska funeral protest law. By Martha Stoddard ... State lawmakers passed the law in response to public outrage over the picketing of military funerals by members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas.
KSNT News
December 31, 1999
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) - It's arguably the most controversial church in America and it sits in the capital city. The Westboro Baptist Church ...
Southeast Missourian
December 31, 1999
The Westboro Baptist Church, led by his father, pastor Fred Phelps, ... and verbally abused by his father at their home in Topeka, Kansas.
Orlando Sentinel
December 31, 1999
Anti-gay Westboro Baptist pickets at Valencia College, 3 churches near ... Westboro, based in Topeka, Kansas, gained notoriety in the mid ...
KWTX
September 10, 2017
Westboro Baptist Church, known for anti-gay protests across the United ... WBC was founded in 1955 by Fred Phelps Sr. in Topeka, Kansas.
The University Daily Kansan
September 9, 2017
Fred was the founder and leader of the Westboro Baptist Church, a Topeka-based ministry notorious for showing up at the funerals of deadÃÂ ...
Cincinnati.com
September 6, 2017
Westboro member Jennifer Phelps-Roper said the Topeka, ... Westboro Baptist is a family-based group founded by late patriarch Fred Phelps.
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