You'll never guess what Westboro Baptist Church is planning to do.

[KamaAina]

Picket. Maya Angelou's. Funeral.

http://myfox8.com/2014/05/29/westboro-baptist-church-plans-to-picket-maya-angelous-funeral/

The highly-controversial Westboro Baptist Church is planning to picket Maya Angelou’s funeral.

The church has asked their Twitter followers for information on Maya Angelou’s funeral. They also tweeted various hateful things about Angelou on Wednesday and Thursday.

The group frequently pickets various events, such as military funerals, gay pride gatherings, high-profile political gatherings and university commencement ceremonies.

The church is known for the controversial signs they picket with, some of which read “THANK GOD FOR DEAD SOLDIERS” and “GOD HATES F*GS.”

So now God hates poets?!

[SidDithers]

1. Do they ever actually show up anymore?...

Seems they're getting all the attention they want just by announcing they're going to protest something.

Sid

[arcane1]

4. Kind of like Senate Republicans and the filibuster

[Initech]

6. *rimshot*

[missingthebigdog]

2. Yeah. Good luck with that.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. They won't show.

They announce that they're going to picket - this gets them the publicity they want - but then they usually don't show up, at least for high-profile events, because they are not only hateful bigots, they're cowardly hateful bigots.

[Aerows]

5. Unless they think they can provoke

a lawsuit, they don't show. That's all they are in this for.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I think everyone is onto them and therefore won't provoke them.

On the rare occasions when those creeps do still show up, they are met with counter-protesters who peacefully prevent them from getting close to the event. Nobody gets hurt and they have nothing to sue about.

But really, fuck those people all to hell.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. They had planned to come to Anchorage June 1

and picket the Alaska Native Heritage Center for the godless ways of Alaska's Natives. I guess they're putting that plan on hold now?

[FreedRadical]

9. Maya Angelou is going to have a vary large funeral.

I'd would kind of like to see them show up. It gives me great joy to watch cowards scurry away.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Attention whores

Ignore the Westboro hate-clowns... they're just trolling for attention.