Westboro to Picket Tubbs Jones Funeral

Advocate  Aug 28 08

The Westboro Baptist Church has made plans to picket the funeral of the late Ohio congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who died August 19 of a brain aneurysm. Full story...

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