107.9 The River » Westboro Baptist Church http://theriver1079.com Casper's Real Rock Variety Wed, 22 May 2013 02:11:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Casper Reacts to Westboro Baptist Church Plan to Protest Funerals in Connecticut http://theriver1079.com/casper-reacts-to-westboro-baptist-church-plan-to-protest-funerals-in-connecticut/ http://theriver1079.com/casper-reacts-to-westboro-baptist-church-plan-to-protest-funerals-in-connecticut/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:04:27 +0000 Ian Delap http://theriver1079.com/?p=219151 The Westboro Baptist Church are no strangers to Casper.  Most Casperites remember the WBC from protesting the funeral service held for Matthew Shepard in 1998 in Casper.  The WBC has now targeted the Connecticut tragedy as their next protesting platform.  The internet has been reacting extensively and Casper residents are getting in on the discussion.

]]> http://theriver1079.com/casper-reacts-to-westboro-baptist-church-plan-to-protest-funerals-in-connecticut/feed/ 0 Mario Tama, Getty Images Hacktivist Group Attacks Westboro Baptist Church Website [VIDEO] http://theriver1079.com/hacktivist-group-attacks-westboro-baptist-church-website-video/ http://theriver1079.com/hacktivist-group-attacks-westboro-baptist-church-website-video/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:39:33 +0000 Jeff Easterling http://kygl.com/?p=140841 After it was announced that Westboro Baptist Church was planning to protest at funerals of the vicitms of the Sandy Hook School shooting, the hacker collective group Anonymous hacked into the Westboro website and confidential information about church members has been taken and posted across the web.

]]> http://theriver1079.com/hacktivist-group-attacks-westboro-baptist-church-website-video/feed/ 0 Spencer Platt/Getty Images Westboro Baptist Church Will Picket Betty Ford's Funeral http://theriver1079.com/westboro-baptist-church-will-picket-betty-fords-funeral/ http://theriver1079.com/westboro-baptist-church-will-picket-betty-fords-funeral/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:31:20 +0000 Grace Niemitalo http://theriver1079.com/?p=7883 The Westboro Baptist Church is at it again.

The fundamentalist and anti-gay group has announced it will picket the funeral of former first lady Betty Ford, who died last week, because she got divorced before marrying the man who would later become President Gerald Ford. This, the group says, made her an adulterer who "loved to sit with tawdry reporters and blather about sex."

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