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The First Westboro Baptist Counterprotest of the Post-Phelps Era

Demonstration of the week.

Jesse Walker | 3.22.2014 2:23 PM

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When members of the Westboro Baptist Church picketed a Lorde concert in Kansas City, counterprotesters were there to greet them:

Only way this could have been better is if it had been at Phelps' funeral.
KSHB

Via Mother Jones.

Elsewhere in Reason: Scott Shackford's send-off for the late Fred Phelps.

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