Westboro Baptist Church agrees to not protest funerals

Associated Press//January 12, 2011//

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas church that pickets the funerals of soldiers and blames their deaths on the country’s tolerance of homosexuality now says it won’t protest the funerals of any victims of Arizona‘s mass shooting.

Shirley Phelps-Roper, of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church, says her church has agreed to avoid Thursday’s funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green in exchange for live radio interviews in Canada and Arizona.

The church also promised to not protest the funeral of U.S. District Judge John Roll or other victims of the shooting after a nationally syndicated radio show agreed to host church members Monday.

Christina and Roll were among six killed in the shooting Saturday targeting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

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