Dear Reverend Phelps,

[proud2BlibKansan]

Faced with a lawsuit against his city, filed by the daughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, St. Joseph, Mo., Mayor Ken Shearin let fly today with a testy response.

The suit, filed earlier this week, challenged the constitutionality of an ordinance that bars protesters from demonstrating at the funerals of fallen service members.

Here’s Shearin’s comment in its entirety:

“I calculate that there are about 26 million living veterans in our Country. I speculate there is not one of them who fought for our freedom-based Country that would not like the opportunity to spit in the eye of these obscure and insignificant radicals.

“Furthermore, I can’t imagine a court system that allows such an insulting challenge to our laws and way of life to proceed, or a lawyer who would stoop low enough to represent them.

“I also can’t imagine any one of these veterans or individuals who believe in the American way of life that would not stand up to these (you fill in the adjective you feel best fits these weirdoes) desecrations of our symbol of a freedom they are taking advantage of.

“The Westboro group should crawl back under the rock they came from. They are an embarrassment to our Country and any aspect of religious belief.”

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