Twelve hateful/hate-filled members of Fred Phelps' virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., protested at Coretta Scott King's funeral Tuesday. Camped out on the grass next to the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church’s stone-carved sign, the protesters, who made a name for themselves protesting at the funeral of slain gay college student Matthew Shepherd and most recently at the funerals of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, held signs that read Mrs. King was in hell because she was a “fag enabler” who advocated for gay rights. Follow the link to Dyana Bagby's story at the Washingtonblade.com.
And...an interesting couple of lines from one of our local papers "This Day In History" area -
1856 -- 150 years ago:
One of the many notoriously bad women who infest this city has made several public exhibitions of herself lately in male attire. Saturday evening while passing along Illinois Street, dressed out in the same style, she was arrested by officers Reddig and Lavee and lodged in the county jail.