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Canadian Border Guards Keep Out Westboro Baptist Church Picketers

By Howard M. Friedman

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, famous for picketing military funerals and other events protesting supposed tolerance of homosexuality, are now attempting to extend their activities to Canada. However, according to last Thursday's National Post, Canadian border officials denied them admission as they were attempting to travel to Winnipeg to picket the Saturday funeral of a young man murdered last week on a Greyhound bus. A Winnipeg resident, using a Facebook page, was recruiting residents to surround the picketers if they did arrive. Saturday's Winnipeg Free Press reported that the Westboro picketers-- who had threatened to carry signs saying that the murder was God's response to Canadian policies permitting abortion, homosexuality and adultery-- never showed up. [Thanks to "Chimera" for the lead.]

Full post as published by Religion Clause on August 09, 2008 (boomark / email).