Westboro Baptist to protest Marine's memorial

06/20/11 GASTON COUNTY, N.C. -- Members of a controversial church plan to protest today's memorial service of a 21-year-old Marine from Gastonia who was killed while serving in Afghanistan. But friends of Lance Cpl. Nicholas O'Brien say they are making plans to drown out Westboro Baptist Church's message. Those close to O'Brien say the protest threatens to sully the memory of a young man who turned down ...

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All Quiet at Ryan Dunn's Memorial; Westboro Church Plans to Picket Funeral

06/23/11 Ryan Dunn's private memorial service Wednesday night was peaceful but that will likely not be the case for the actor's public memorial service which Westboro Baptist Church has vowed to picket.

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Churchmembers' Funeral Protest Plans Thwarted By Citizens' Groups

07/16/11 Family Fatally Injured In Plane Crash Was To Have Been Target Of Picketing By Westboro Baptist Church Members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS, had planned to picket a memorial service in the Florida panhandle town of Niceville being held for seven people who were fatally injured when the plane in which they were traveling went down in Demopolis, AL, while returning from a family ...

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