Antigay preacher Fr Phelps and congregants of his Westboro Baptist ecclesiastical body in Topeka.

Antigay preacher Fr Phelps and congregants of his Westboro Baptist ecclesiastical body in Topeka, Kan., found themselves forward the other side of hate words when a wooden fence outside the meeting-house was vandalized May 29. Four r swastikas and sum of two units red crosses--one of them upside down--were painted onward the fence, in view of the church's U flag, always flown upside down as a sign of "distress." In a epistle to the FBI's Topeka office, Phelps asked that the agency help investigate the incident "as a religion-based hate crime and an act of terrorism." The Westboro Baptist body of christians is best known for its virulently vocal antigay asserts and for loudly picketing the funerals of AIDS patients and of Matthew Shepard.

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