The Fred Phelps crew first made a name for themselves when they protested Matthew Shephard's funeral [the young gay man beaten, pistol whipped, tied to a fence and left to die on a lonely road in Wyoming]
http://www.matthewshepard.org/
Their antics are utterly obscene. They not only protest funerals, but they protest at churches that don't "hate fags" enough for them--like Catholic churches. They protest at anything they can loosely connect to gay rights but what they are doing actually galvanizes SUPPORT of gay rights in many of the places they protest.
They are so extreme that they get people that otherwise would stay silent to realize the level of hate that is out there--an unintended consequence I am sure.
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