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QUANTICO, VA – NPR reported that the FBI has recently invited the Reverend Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church to talk to agents as part of the bureau’s counterterrorism training program.

WBC is best known for their protests holding signs stating “God Hates Fags” and protesting at the funerals carrying signs with messages such as “Thank God for Dead Soldiers”. Phelps contends that the protests are intended to tell the world that God is punishing the United States for its tolerance of homosexuality.

The FBI claims the program was designed to teach agents how to stay measured when they are speaking with a witness or a suspect with whom they have a strong, visceral disagreement. After just four sessions this past spring, the FBI canceled the arrangement due to criticism from inside the bureau.

DALLAS, TX – The Rev. Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church protested at one of the recent Miami Heat-Dallas Mavericks playoff games in Dallas, Texas but the protesters didn’t get much support from  the basketball fans.

TOPEKA, KA – When Reverend Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, announced they would picket the Lisa Lampanelli’s show in Topeka, the comedienne promised to donate $1,000 to the Gay Men’s Health Crisis for each member of the church who participated in

the protest. As it turned out, 44 protesters from the church showed up and Lampanelli made a check out to the AIDS service group for $44,000 in the name of the Westboro Baptist Church.

TOPEKA, KA – A website hacker group, known as Anonymous, has threatened to shut down the websites of the Reverend Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church located in Topeka, Kansas. Previously, Anonymous has disabled sites belonging to Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange, Visa and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Phelps and his followers have several websites including GodHatesFags.com and GodHatesAmerica.com.

The open letter to WBC from Anonymous said:

“We, the collective super-consciousness known as ANONYMOUS – the Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People – have long heard you issue your venomous statements of hatred, and we have witnessed your flagrant and absurd displays of inimitable bigotry and intolerant fanaticism. We have always regarded you and your ilk as an assembly of graceless sociopaths and maniacal chauvinists & religious zealots, however benign, who act out for the sake of attention & in the name of religion.”

“ANONYMOUS cannot abide this behavior any longer. The time for us to be idle spectators in your inhumane treatment of fellow Man has reached its apex, and we shall now be moved to action.

Thus, we give you a warning: Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011, return to your homes in Kansas, & close your public Web sites.”

The Westboro Baptist Church responded: “Bring it on!”