As reported on Friday, Fred Phelp's group were denied access to Canada. We get further wind that the reason they were coming to Canada was to protest a funeral. The man who was brutally murdered on a Greyhound bus in the west of Canada was the subject of their protest. The Westboro Baptis Church group wanted to protest this funeral and make claims that the reason this happened is because God is unhappy with Canada for their political views on homosexuality. They believe our Country is to lenient on us gays.. hmmm righhhht!!
Despite claims they had thwarted a government ban and had entered Canada, members of an anti-gay group that purports to be a church failed to show up for their threatened protest at the funeral of a man who was stabbed to death and beheaded aboard a Greyhound bus.
Members of Rev. Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., claimed they had successfully entered the country by removing material that referred to the “church” from their vehicles and shipped them by courier to Winnipeg after the material was used to blocked them from another crossing into Manitoba on Thursday.
A directive was sent to border guards last week by Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day to bar the group under Canada’s hate crime law, after Pat Martin, a New Democratic Party member of Parliament from Winnipeg, said he had received hundreds of complaints about the planned protest.
The Phelps group said it would protest at the weekend funeral of Tim McLean to show Canadians that murder was God’s response to liberal Canadian policies toward homosexuality.
A large police contingent was on hand to prevent trouble at the funeral. Earlier in the day, more than 500 Winnipegers filled nearby streets determined to prevent any protest from being seen by mourners.
McLean, 22, was brutally attacked as he sat in his seat on a Greyhound bus traveling west of Winnipeg on July 30. A fellow passenger has been charged with murder. [SOURCE]
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