Westboro Baptist Church

Country star Vince Gill apparently had enough with the Westboro Church picketing funerals and other events with hatred-laden signs that he felt the need to personally confront them

A West Virginia man has been acquitted of battery charges for spitting on a member of the Westboro Baptist Church during a protest outside a Catholic church in Charleston last year. Billy Spade told jurors that as the son of a deceased coal miner, he was offended by protesters holding signs that said “Thank God for dead coal miners...