Members of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church staged their first protest Friday night after the death of the church's founder Fred Phelps on Thursday.
The city council in the hometown of the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church is set to debate an ordinance to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) and a spokesperson for Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) have condemned the Westboro Baptist Church for announcing they would protest the funerals of Harrisburg residents who died last week during a tornado.
The Westboro Baptist Church did not picket singer Whitney Houston's funeral on Saturday, but they did upload a fake photo to Twitter in hopes of convincing others that they did.
The Westboro Baptist Church said Wednesday that it would picket the funeral of Grammy-winning singer Whitney Houston because she engaged "in sorceries."
Legislation targeting the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church and any other would-be funeral protesters was unanimously approved Thursday by the California Assembly, according to the Sacramento Bee.
