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Is this site applicable as a protest site against the WBC? http://www.god-does-not-hate-fags.com Tshcomm (talk) 13:58, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Please explain exactly what change you want made to the article. That site won't be be mentioned in the article unless it has received in-depth coverage from secondary sources like newspapers. --NeilN ^{talk to me} 15:10, 26 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In relation to the recent and untimely death of the Fast and Furious actor, Paul Walker, the WBC have announced they intend to protest his funeral, via their twitter feed here and here. I feel this should be added to the list of protests they have announced. JoshR92 (talk) 11:42, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Twitter is not a reliable source. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:04, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(Safe assumption: Any funeral that is in the news is potentially a venue for a WBC protest). Rather than a lengthy and useless list of all of their protests, we report what independent reliable sources say about their activities. - SummerPhD (talk) 16:10, 1 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough, thanks for the answers :) JoshR92 (talk) 12:18, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like an editor or three has done some digging through WBC's websites looking for whatever material they considered, um, noteworthy. By "noteworthy", of course, I mean "damning". Yeah, I get it. That said, virtually all of the material from primary sources simply does not belong here. To the extent that independent reliable sources discuss an aspect of WBC, we should be summarizing and including it. Digging through their garbage for content, though, is no way to build an objective article. - SummerPhD (talk) 05:52, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Here is a V2.0 draft: please don't delete this so I can continue to draft it to Wikipedia perfection. This is what it read as in the V2.0

On July 14, 2013, Members of a Satanic sect called the "Satanic Temple" preformed 'pink mass' rituals over the grave of Catherine Idalette Johnson located in Meridian, Mississippi. Johnson is the mother of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) founder Pastor Fred Phelps. According to Lucien Graves, the church member who preformed the rituals, the ordinances post-humorously transformed the sexual orientation of Johnson from that of heterosexual to homosexual.[175] The ritual was preformed both times for a lesbian and gay couple were represented. [176]Graves commented that the church was also trying to raise awareness for an Indiegogo fund raising campaign to adopt a highway, but Graves also notes that protest could also be an effective counter protest against anyone propagating 'anti-gay' hysteria in the future. Graves threaten the WBC from continuing to conduct 'anti-gay' protest such as picketing. The "Satanic Temple" will target Phelps' ancestor's tombs such as his father and Grand-Aunt with 'Pink mass' rituals.[177]

Please correct spellings of perform (once), performed (twice) and trespassing (once)

On July 14, 2013, members of a Satanic sect called the "Satanic Temple" performed 'pink mass' rituals over Catherine Idalette Johnson's grave, located in Meridian, Mississippi. Johnson is the mother of Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) founder Pastor Fred Phelps. According to Lucien Graves, the church member who preformed the rituals, the ordinances post-humorously transformed the sexual orientation of Johnson from that of heterosexual to homosexual.^[1] The ritual was preformed both times for a lesbian and gay couple were represented.^[2]Graves commented that the church was also trying to raise awareness for an Indiegogo fund raising campaign to adopt a highway, but Graves also notes that protest could also be an effective counter protest against anyone propagating 'anti-gay' hysteria in the future. Graves threaten the WBC from continuing to conduct 'anti-gay' protest such as picketing. The "Satanic Temple" will target the tombs of Phelp's ancestors such as his father and Grand-Aunt with 'pink mass' rituals.^[3]

Scunnyjim (talk) 03:06, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

 Done, with some quotation mark fixes as a bonus. --Anon126 (talk - contribs) 05:27, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I threw in a "posthumously" as well. - Nunh-huh 06:28, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]