Phelps Update

Update on this story:

via email, Mare passed on this old article about Phelps disgusting presence at the funeral of Matthew Shepard. Mare pointed out how the LEO cordoned off the protesters and tried to obscure them by hanging a large US flag between the protesters and the funeral. Mare said, "Phelps is a very disturbed and selfish person.
There really should be a law against this type of thing." Amen.

Ok, that gives you a little more background on the lizard. Here's what I've learned about yesterday's funeral: apparently he wasn't there. Rob (my original source) speculates that this was a stunt to draw attention to Phelps' cause or perhaps it was a misunderstanding. Still looking into that.

Phelps was spotted in Brook Park, Ohio, at the funeral of Marine CPL Jeffery Boskovitch:

On an access road outside the hall, there had been a brief disruption — what some in the hall called a "blasphemy": Six church members from Kansas marched in protest, wielding picket signs that read "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "Don't Worship the Dead."

Fred Phelps, 52, the leader of the group, which called itself Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, said God had killed the Marines to punish the military for allowing homosexuals to serve.

The protesters, who included Phelps' mother, Margie Phelps, 79, and his niece, Rebekah Phelps-Roper, 18, said they had protested at several military memorial services and funerals to remind families that they had "forsaken the Lord," as Phelps-Roper put it.

Many of those attending the service cursed the protesters as police herded the six toward the far side of the highway. They looked small and distant, dwarfed by a massive American flag mounted on a firetruck ladder provided by the local fire department.

Thankfully, the rest of the article is about the actual funeral and tribute to a fallen warrior. God rest his soul and comfort the family, and those of the other fallen Marines. It is sad and unfortunate that the toad Phelps is even mentioned in an article about the final farewell of any of our great Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen.

MORE: also via email, Keith reminds me that Phelps' own flyer gave out the info about SGT Palmerton's funeral. I hate to link to this filth but you need to see for yourself what is spewed out there. h/t to Rob for providing me the link to the flyer and to Keith for reminding me of it's importance.