Megan Touma Westboro Baptists

Westboro Baptist Church has announced plans to picket the funeral of Megan Touma on July 16, 2008, at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The group celebrates the death of soldiers as an act of judgment from God upon America.¹ Touma was found dead on June 21 at a Fairfield Inn near the military base.

Fast Facts

1. Westboro Baptist Church obsessed with homosexuality¹
2. Church has protested at funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan¹
3. Group led by pastor Fred W. Phelps
4. Church has applied for a permit and requested members to meet at Bragg Boulevard and Knox Street at 11:00 a.m. on the date of the funeral¹
5. Danell Shafer organizing Fort Bragg Mommies to counter the church picketers¹
6. Fort Bragg Mommies group has about 400 members¹
7. Police will be on hand to help keep the peace

Quotes¹

"What the heck, we'll speak at the same time. We're here in this country because we have a right to choose. If we want to be Christians, if we want to be gay, you’re free to choose."—Danell Shafer

"God hates the U.S. Military."—Fred W. Phelps

"Thank God for another dead pregnant soldier."—Fred W. Phelps

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