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  • March 20, 2014

    Collected Posts on the Westboro Baptist Church and Fred Phelps

    Westboro Baptist Church Founder Fred Phelps Dies Aged 84 Reverend started Kansas church that gained intense notoriety for its anti-gay protests and pickets at funerals…

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  • March 3, 2011

    Westboro Baptist Church Wins Funeral Protest Case

    Supreme Court Rules First Amendment Protects Westboro Church’s Right to Picket Funerals Robert Barnes, The Washington Post (March 02, 2011) A nearly unanimous Supreme Court…

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  • October 7, 2010

    Westboro Baptist Church Supreme Court Case

    Anti-Gay Minister Shouldn’t Be Able To Intrude On Soldiers’ Funerals Doug Gansler, The Washington Post (October 6, 2010)   Funeral Protesters Have A Free-Speech Right…

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  • October 4, 2010

    US Supreme Court Hears Funeral Protest Case on Wednesday

    Westboro Baptist’s Funeral Protests Put Free Speech To Test Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers (October 1, 2010)   Supreme Court Term Offers Hot Issues and Future…

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  • August 23, 2010

    Update on Westboro Baptist Church Funeral Protests

    Antigay Church can Protest Military Funerals, Judge Rules Warren Richey, Christian Science Monitor (August 17, 2010) Death Ref has been following the Westboro Baptists Church’s…

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  • May 31, 2010

    Burying Dead Soldiers and Judging Free Speech

    High Court: Justices to Consider ‘Funeral Protests’ in Free-Speech Case Robert Barnes, Washington Post (May 31, 2010) The Washington Post ran a really interesting article…

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  • March 31, 2010

    Father of Dead Soldier Ordered to Pay Up

    An update to our “God Hates Dead Soldiers” post. The family of dead Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder has been ordered to pay $16,510 in…

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  • March 9, 2010

    “Thank God for Dead Soldiers”

    So says Fred Phelps. You may be familiar with Phelps and his hate-mongering followers—most of whom are actually his family members—because they have been making…

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  • November 18, 2009

    Mock Funerals: Performances for Protest, Satire and Social Change

    While specific rites and rituals vary across cultures and time, anyone who has been to a few memorial services or even seen them on TV…

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