Help Fight Phelps

[Linus]

If you've never heard of Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, you may want to read the full article below. And if you can spare a few dollars, please help the father fight them and prevent them from further picketing funerals of soldiers. It's hard enough for valiant men and women, regardless of sexual orientation, to go to war. Their families suffer enough when they come back in a body bag. They don't need this as well.

http://www.matthewsnyder.org/help.html (donation info can be found here)

(CNN) -- The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church says an order to pay the protesters' legal costs in a civil claim is nothing less than a "slap in the face."


"By the court making this decision, they're not only telling me that they're taking their side, but I have to pay them money to do this to more soldiers and their families," said Albert Snyder, whose son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, was killed in action in Iraq in 2006.


Members of the fundamentalist church based in Topeka, Kansas, appeared outside Snyder's funeral in 2006 in Westminster, Maryland, carrying signs reading "You're going to hell," "God hates you" and "Thank God for dead soldiers."