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Haters Come to Manchester

Members of Westboro Baptist Church came to Manchester Saturday afternoon to step on the American flag while demanding rights under the Constitution.

The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, Independent Baptist church known for its extreme ideologies, especially those against homosexuality. The church is widely described as a hate group and is monitored as such by the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center.

It is headed by Fred Phelps and consists primarily of members of his large family.  

In 2011, the church stated that it had about 40 members.

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The church is headquartered in a residential neighborhood on the west side of Topeka about three miles west of the Kansas State Capitol.

(Information from Wikipedia) 

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