Recently, followers of Fred Phelp’s Westboro Church announced they were planning a “gospel picket” to celebrate the death of a pregnant soldier, 23-year-old Army Spc. Megan Touma. The fundamentalist church claims “war casualties are divine revenge for America tolerating gays and lesbians.” The AP reports that Ft. Bragg military wives are organizing to oppose Westboro’s “plan to celebrate the death of a pregnant dead soldier.” Westboro Church followers have protested against victims of the Minneapolis bridge collapse and picketed dozens of funerals with messages such as “Thank God For AIDS.”

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