http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/orl-bk-caylee-anthony-memorial-church-020909,0,3902377.story

From Orlando Sentinel
Kansas-based group to protest Caylee Anthony's memorial

Amy L. Edwards | Sentinel Staff Writer
4:30 PM EST, February 9, 2009

Members of a controversial Kansas church known for protesting military funerals plan to picket Caylee Marie Anthony's memorial Tuesday.

Westboro Baptist Church detailed its plans in a recent news statement, which concludes with the phrase "GOD HATES AMERICA."

The Topeka church claims that U.S. troops killed in combat are God's punishment for a nation harboring homosexuals.

Westboro Baptist Church is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Meanwhile, preparations are continuing for Caylee's memorial service.

The service will be at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Orlando, 3000 S. John Young Parkway. The church is at the intersection of Interstate 4, southwest of downtown Orlando.

The doors will open at 8 a.m., said Brad Conway, the lawyer representing Caylee's grandparents. But the church stated Monday afternoon that the doors will open at 9 a.m.

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The service is open to the public, but the Anthony family is reserving the right to refuse entry to certain people. No cell phones, still or video cameras will be permitted inside the building. Purses, bags and backpacks also are not allowed. Everyone who attends the service has to pass through a metal detector.

The church's worship center seats 5,000 people. The lawyer representing Caylee's grandparents has said he expects the church to be packed.

Already, people from as far as California and New York have told the Orlando Sentinel they plan to attend.

Caylee's mother, Casey Anthony, who is accused of killing the toddler, cannot attend the service. She is being held without bail at the Orange County Jail, which is near the church.

Anthony, 22, has not requested to watch the service on television.

She does have a transistor radio. A jail spokesman has said no one from his agency will comment on Anthony's jailhouse demeanor or whether she listens to the memorial on her radio.

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Yanno, I don't usually start threads here, but goddam. What the hell does this poor baby's death have to do with this fuckers agenda?

this is just craziness
the whole case has become a circus so i guess it is no surprise that the freak show want to attend

those people are fuckin evil though... i'm pretty convinced that if there's a hell, they'll be goin.

You gotta kill the Westboro Baptist Church to become God.

Fuck, I'm down. Let's go!!!

i don't see a single good reason the government should allow this sort of thing than under the worthy banner of liberty.

Westboro Baptist is the kind of organization that really helps me understand what has got Sam Harris and by proxy Ceebs so befuddled.

Don't these lunatics already have their own thread?

yes they do

One of these days, someone is going to mow down a bunch of these fuckwits when they're protesting a funeral or something.

That's all I have to say about that.

we should protest their funerals with signs that say "God Hates Haters"

It wouldn't surprise me if Westboro Baptist Church is actually an undercover atheist organization. What these people do is despicable, but I could envision an argument that it actually serves a greater purpose that is just.



If so, you don't understand what you think you understand. Extremist groups like this only serve to fool moderates into believing that their own version of religion is morally and ethically superior. In reality, religious moderates are just as much to blame for the affliction religion has brought upon society.

It doesn't take a prominent religious critic like Sam Harris to see that religious extremists are dangerous. I would guess that you try to make yourself believe that religious extremism is the cause of all anti-religious movement to avoid the reality that Sam Harris and others like him are actually talking about people like you.

all religious people are extremist and dangerous?

Oops, thanks for catching that typo.

yeah, i was going to say. People with religion can also be level-headed people.

Westboro Baptist Church is truly a den of despicable deviants.




I would love to protest one of their protests with a sign reading "Don't Hate the Playa, Hate the Game"
Someone should get on that.

How about one that says, "I want to fuck your daughter in the ass, hard."



It's wrong to stoop to their level. Fortunately, that doesn't even approach stooping to the level.

LOL @ vote for pedro

Wasn't there something in that movie that would offend these nuts?

I don't get why they're protesting this funeral. Was Caylee gay?

the horribleness of it all?