Canada hates Westboro Baptist Church

Westboro Baptist Church founder, Fred Phelps, center, sporting the latest advancement in sunglass technology Americans who had hoped their neighbors to the north would kindly take the Westboro Baptist Church off their hands were dealt a setback, Thursday, when Canadian border officials denied members of the church entry into the country. The protesters were heading […]

Westboro Baptist Church founder, Fred Phelps, center, sporting the latest advancement in sunglass technology


Americans who had hoped their neighbors to the north would kindly take the Westboro Baptist Church off their hands were dealt a setback, Thursday, when Canadian border officials denied members of the church entry into the country.

The protesters were heading to Canada to picket at the funeral of a man who was murdered on a Greyhound bus last month. The Winnipeg Free Press caught up with Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of church founder Fred Phelps, who offered this horrifying tidbit:

“They won’t let us in, but we have a group that will cross in another spot,” Phelps-Roper said. “They’ll have to strip search everyone who crosses that border or they won’t know who we are. They’ll have to see the WBC (Westboro Baptist Church) tattoo on our butts.”

Reports of the church’s invasion sparked Winnipeg residents to action. Counter-protests were organized over Facebook, where one group tallied 778 members.

The church has become infamous for staging protests (or “love crusades”) at military funerals and prayer services. It has come out in support of everything from 9/11, to tornadoes, to the Virginia Tech shootings.

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