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Sunday, December 8, 2013

Westboro Baptists ‘booking flights’ for Johannesburg to protest Mandela’s funeral

Westboro Baptists ‘booking flights’ for Johannesburg to protest Mandela’s funeral

 
By George Chidi
Saturday, December 7, 2013 17:02 EST
A Westboro Baptist Church member pickets a Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles on June 19, 2009. Photo: Flickr user k763, creative commons licensed.
 
The Westboro Baptist Church has a long history of media-soliciting domestic and international hate protests, with pickets targeting the funerals of dead children at Sandy Hook, fallen soldiers and celebrities like Paul Walker drawing outsized attention.
Their next dive into the fray is a triple-gainer by their historical standards, though — a protest of Nelson Mandela’s funeral. In South Africa.
In a series of deliberately-provocative Twitter posts, the church says it is buying plane tickets to South Africa and is hoping to coordinate with South African police while they stage a protest at the funeral, citing Mandela’s divorce and remarriage as evidence of damnation.

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