A federal court
has ordered liens against the staunchly fundamentalist
Westboro Baptist Church, which recently lost a civil suit,
The [Baltimore] Sun reported Monday.
A federal court
has ordered liens against the staunchly fundamentalist
Westboro Baptist Church, which recently lost a civil suit,
The [Baltimore] Sun reported Monday.
Judge Richard D.
Bennett of the U.S. district court of Maryland ordered
church founder Fred Phelps and his two daughters to post
cash bonds of $125,000 and $100,000 within the next 30
days. The judge also placed a lien on an office
building owned by the elder Phelps that is worth
$232,900. No money may be borrowed against the equity in the
buildings, and no new mortgages can be issued on the
property. The church property was appraised recently
at $442,800.
The Topeka,
Kan.–based Phelps family is currently appealing a $5
million judgment in a civil case they lost in
November, in which a jury found that the group
intentionally inflicted emotional distress on a family by
picketing the funeral of their son, who had been killed in
Iraq. The church often pickets military funerals,
saying the deaths are God's punishment for America's
tolerance of homosexuality. (The Advocate)
Click here to follow The Advocate on Twitter.
Page 1 of 1