I'm sooooo proud to be a citizen of the same Country and breath the same air as this trash. I support their right to free speech. I also support the right of a friend, relative or other concerned citizen who feels sadness at the tragic deaths of these miners to wipe the street with this unfeeling garbage.
Westboro Baptist Church Plans Pickets Throughout West Virginia
Westboro Baptist Church Plans Pickets Throughout West Virginia
CHARLESTON -- A group known for holding signs proclaiming anti-gay slogans, picketing military funerals and stomping on the American flag has named 11 places in Charleston and Wheeling they plan to protest in April.
In 2006, the group picketed a memorial service for victims of the Sago Mine Disaster holding signs that read, “Thank God for dead miners."
According to the Web site of the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church, members of the group will be in the Mountain State beginning in Charleston on April 8.
They have announced pickets at the State Capitol building from 4:20 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. and The University of Charleston from 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday.
On Friday, April 9, the group will picket Charleston Catholic High School from 7:15 a.m. to 7:45 a.m.
On Saturday, April 10, the group has scheduled, on their Web site, pickets at Congregation B'nai Jacob and Temple Israel synagogues.
On the same day in Wheeling they plan to picket three Catholic churches and Wheeling Jesuit University.
On Sunday, April 11, pickets are scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. at Sacred Heart Cathedral in downtown Charleston.
The Church is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a general hate group and featured on its national hate map. To view the map click here.
To view the picketing schedule, click here to visit the Westboro Baptist Church Web site.