A church group that protests funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq with signs that read "God Hates America" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" plans to protest at the funeral of 19-year-old Lance Cpl. Adam Kaiser in Naperville.

Shirley Phelps-Roper, the attorney for Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., said a group from the church intends to protest at both Kaiser's funeral and the funeral of Byron resident Lance Cpl. Andrew Patten, 19, who was also killed in Thursday's blast in Fallujah. The group has already protested about a dozen funerals in Illinois.

Fred Phelps, Westboro's pastor, said soldiers' deaths are God's way of punishing America for its "acceptance of homosexuality."

Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn is proposing a new law that would prohibit protests within 300 feet of any military funeral.

"To have these vile signs and epithets hurled at any family and any funeral is wrong," Quinn told the Chicago Sun-Times. "We should respect the right of any family to grieve and bury their dead with reverence."

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Now here is a group who deserve, in my opinion, all the hate and contempt I can muster. The fact someone has not beaten the out of one of them or shot one of them is beyond me. If I were to attend to a soldier's funeral and saw this I would be moved to violence.

And I have yet to beat the living snot out of them yet because of?

Oh, I thought this is about ACLU!

LoL

I would suggest their church needs a little fire insurance but I guess I shouldn't say that. It's ONLY a christian group like the KKK that would do something like that.

hmmm... tisk tisk tisk.. dont they ever have a wider view!?

Fred Phelps, Westboro's pastor, said soldiers' deaths are God's way of punishing America for its "acceptance of homosexuality."

What have homosexuality to do with warfare?

Its a christian fundamentalist view that because the United States has not outlawed homosexuality that God is punishing us by killing American soldiers. In order to understand this logic please check your brain at the door before proceeding.

Yeah, Phelps has to be the best thing to happen to gay rights ever.

I hope one of his kids turns out gay.

I hope one of them joins the military.

Maybe he could make it as a gay soldier, I believe they are allowed in the US army nowadays, are they not?

Mod edit: Another troll today? That's 2 and it's still early!