Monday, March 22, 2010

Blunt, Carnahan on Westboro Baptist Churh witness list

Former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and infamous preacher Fred Phelps are on the witness list submitted today in U. S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri for the July 19 trial in the lawsuit filed by Phelps's sister Shirley Phelps-Roeper and the Westboro Baptist Church against the state of Missouri.

Ms. Phelps-Roeper filed her lawsuit after a law was enacted in Missouri preventing protests at funerals. She and her fellow church members have made a practice of protesting at servicemen's funerals, saying God wanted them dead because America is too tolerant of homosexuals.

The Eighth District Court of Appeals ruled in October that church members could continue picketing at funerals until the case is decided.

2 comments:

imtough said...

Come on! How can this hateful awfoul woman file a lawsuit and actually get an attorney to take it? Who is Shirley attorney?

Anonymous said...

She is an attorney and filed it herself.