Vol.62/No.44 December 7, 1998
Chicago: 1,500 protest antigay picket
More than 1,500 people joined a demonstration November 22 in
Chicago in response to Rev. Fred Phelps, a right-wing antigay
preacher from Topeka, Kansas. Phelps and his family were
picketing the Broadway United Methodist Church in Lakeview,
where Rev. Gregory Dell recently performed a same-sex marriage.
Phelps picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man
killed in Wyoming in October. The antigay protesters carried
signs that read: "2 gay rights: AIDS and Hell."
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