Fred Phelps,
leader of the maliciously antigay Westboro Baptist Church of
Topeka, Kan., Is slated to picket funerals for victims of
the Interstate 35-West bridge that collapsed in
Minneapolis.
According to a
flier posted on the church's Web site, GodHatesFags.com,
the protests, or "love crusades" as they are called, will
begin Wednesday with the funeral of Sherry Lou
Engebretsen.
Shirley
Phelps-Roper, daughter of Fred Phelps and church attorney,
said that God has turned his back on America and
Minnesota for its tolerance of LGBT people, according
to the Twin Cities Daily Planet Web site.
"The bridge stood
in place by the word of God and it fell by the word of
God," she said in the article. "Each of these little events
is just a harbinger of the coming destruction of this
American experiment. We are delivering the final call
of the doomed nation." (The Advocate)