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Members of Westboro Baptist Church, the antigay church in Topeka, Kansas, that protests military funerals, won a court victory September 24 when a federal appeals court overturned a $5 million judgment against it. The father of a marine killed in Iraq in 2006 sued Westboro pastor Fred Phelps and his church after they protested his son’s funeral with signs saying, “Thank God for dead soldiers” and “God hates America.” Judge Robert B.