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Missouri City Attempts to Thwart Westboro Baptist Church Protests

A St. Louis suburb has become the latest municipality to enact an ordinance geared toward ending hateful protests like the ones for which the controversial Westboro Baptist Church is known.

Posted on Mar 6, 2013 READ MORE

Ex-Westboro Baptist Member Opens Up About the Church

“There was a point when we started praying for people to die,” Libby Phelps Alvarez, the granddaughter of the man who founded the church, told NBC’s “Today” in an interview that aired Wednesday.

Posted on Feb 6, 2013 READ MORE

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Westboro Baptist Church’s Tax-Exempt Status Challenged

By Tracy Bloom —

Despite its vitriolic activities and protests that are political in nature, the hate group Westboro Baptist Church has somehow managed to keep its IRS tax-exempt status. But after its publicly announced plans to picket the funerals of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, tens of thousands of people have signed petitions hoping to change that.