Westboro Baptist Church set to make unwelcome appearance at Arizona funerals

TUSCON, Ariz. (ABP) -- Arizonans are up in arms over plans by
Westboro Baptist Church to picket the funerals of six people gunned down
in Tuscon Jan. 8.

Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., a
small independent congregation notorious for showing up at military and
celebrity funerals with inflammatory signs including "God hates fags," announced
in a flier Jan. 8 plans to protest this week at the funerals of victims
killed in an assassination attempt of a congresswoman at a town hall
meeting outside a grocery store.

The flier
said the 18 people shot by suspect Jared Lee Laughner -- including
critically injured Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and slain federal
judge John Roll -- were God's judgment on America's sins.