When it comes to national news - this is Phelps country- unfortunately

It's an unfortunate coincident that Kansas is known for kooky churches, organizations and personalities. Our state was recently in the news for a sign by one of the rightwing Chritian kook churches for putting up a sign insisting that Barack Obama is really a Moslem. But our most prized idiot is the Rev. Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. His main enemy is homosexuals and he has condemned the entire nation for tolerating a single gay person. He pickets funerals of people he thinks are gay or gay sympathisers. He had been pickiting the funeral of dead service men because they fought for a guy country.
If this doesn't make much sense, it doesn't with most of us in Kansas either. We wish the press would find someone else to use for news. But that hasn't happened yet and we still get lots of Fred Phelps coverage. -史蒂夫 奥托

From the Omaha World Herald:

"Westboro protest draws student counter protest
ANDREW J. NELSON AND KATIE FRETLAND

Members of a Kansas church that protests funerals of slain service members fled the grounds of Omaha's Central High School today after police said they could not protect them from student counterprotesters.Students threw hamburgers and bottles of lemonade and milk at members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., according to several students interviewed.Police said no one was injured. They made no arrests.Westboro protesters had demonstrated at two other locations in Omaha earlier in the day before heading to Central High.
They were standing outside the school, near the corner of 20th and Dodge Streets, when school was dismissed at 2:50 p.m. and students began leaving.Witnesses said the protesters held up signs that criticized homosexuality and characterized U.S. President-elect Barack Obama as the antichrist."Unfortunately, it got out of hand with students throwing objects at the protesters and at police," Police Sgt. Cathy Martinec said.

These are typical Phelpites