I suppose I should begin by identifying the people/entities in question; if you do not know who they are and what they are like, nothing that follows will be quite as meaningful or entertaining as it should. The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, was founded in 1955 by Fred Phelps. And, while most churches become known for things like sending missionaries around the world to preach the gospel, feeding the hungry, and teaching people what the Bible says, from roughly the 1990s onward, they became known for edgy and provocative public protests.

They sometimes hold up signs saying “God hates (filthy word for homosexuals).” They have protested the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. They have protested at the funerals of school shooting victims, including the Sandy Hook shooting. Aft

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