Fred Phelps, a wacko Kansas minister who will, I have no doubt, be going straight to Hell when he dies is disrupting GI funerals by saying God is punishing America for harboring homosexuals. Somehow, he and his Neanderthal supporters (who are all related to the straight-to-Hell minister) managed to drag their knuckles all the way to Smyrna, Tennessee — where held up signs saying “God Hates You” and “God Hates Fags.” There they were met by properly enraged protestors.

According to AP, “Hundreds of Smyrna and Ashland City residents and families of other soldiers turned out at both sites to counter the message the Westboro Baptist members brought. So many counterdemonstrators were gathered in Ashland City that police, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers were brought in to control traffic and protect the protesters.”

It’s heartening that a single foul despicable person and his equally foul camp followers should be overwhelmed in this way by people of good will and good sense.