Reverend Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps is coming to Oak Grove, KY to "protest" at a memorial service for the fallen soldiers of the 101st from nearby Ft. Campbell, KY.

The theory is that grieving family members need a reminder that God is punishing America's abominable behavior in endorsing the gay, uh, lifestyle? Agenda?

Whatever it is, Phelps isn't known for espousing dog-whistle views on religion. The running notion is that God is punishing America by killing American soldiers with roadside bombs.

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Phelps preaches that God hates America because the country has been taken over by gays, a sin that God punishes by killing troops.

The group, composed mostly of Phelps' family members and a few friends, has traveled around the country to spread its message by protesting military funerals.

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"We're doing it because our job is to cause Americans to know our abomination," Phelps-Roper said in a phone interview. "God is punishing this nation. One of his weapons of choice is the IED (improvised explosive device).

"It's killing our young people in battle. You have turned this country to those [fags]; now they're coming home in those body bags," she said..

(expletive restored)

Your mission, if you choose to accept it...

Members of Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps, have secured a permit to stage a protest outside Gate 4 on Highway 41A from 5-5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Hopefully, there aren't any live-fire exercises scheduled for the middle of next week. But God wouldn't put Rev. Phelps anywhere near an area where the Army trains our fighting men and women how to use a Howitzer, would he?