What is Westboro Baptist Church?
{{update|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox Christian denomination |name = Westboro Baptist Church |caption_background = |image = Westboro-church1.jpg |main_classification = [[Baptist]] |theology = [[Primitive Baptist]] & [[Calvinist]] |area = [[Topeka]], [[Kansas]], [[United States]] |members = 40<ref name=WBCBlog20111027/> |ministers = [[Fred Phelps]] |website = {{URL|www.godhatesfags.com}} }} The '''Westboro Baptist Church''' ('''WBC''') is an [[United States|American]] unaffiliated [[Baptist]] church known for its extreme opinions and [[protest]]s, especially those [[Homophobia|against gay people]].<ref>{{cite web|title=God Hates Fags|url=http://www.godhatesfags.com/|publisher=Westboro Baptist Church|accessdate=June 20, 2010}} * {{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/09/westboro-baptist-church-p_n_350766.html|title=Westboro Baptist Church Protests Outside Obama Girls' School|work=HuffPost|date=March 18, 2010|accessdate=March 31, 2010|first=Rachel|last=Weiner}} * {{cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2009-02-26/columns/h8ters-l-a-vacation-fred-phelps-146-antigay-baptists-come-out-on-oscar-night/|title=H8ters L.A. Vacation: Fred Phelps' Antigay Baptists Come Out on Oscar Night|last=Mikulan|first=Steven|date=February 25, 2009|work=L.A. Weekly|accessdate=May 31, 2009|archive-date=August 29, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090829195827/http://www.laweekly.com/2009-02-26/columns/h8ters-l-a-vacation-fred-phelps-146-antigay-baptists-come-out-on-oscar-night/|url-status=dead}} * {{cite news|url=http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=88362|title=Phelps Clan Met with Revelry and Frat Boys in Chicago|last=Melloy|first=Kilian|date=March 12, 2009|work=EDGE Boston|accessdate=May 31, 2009|archive-date=July 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710170644/http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=88362|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http: