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Civil Liberties

Westboro Baptist Church Pleased with Sikh Shooting

Fred Phelps tweets: "beautiful work of an angry God who told Wisconsin to keep their filthy hands off his people".

Reason Staff | 8.6.2012 1:32 PM

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Almost immediately after the shooting at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin, leaders of the Westboro Baptist Church took to Twitter, calling the shooting a beautiful punishment from an angry God.

Westboro Church leader Margie Phelps sent out a tweet that read, "God sent another shooter?"

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