Deseret Morning NewsBy Ben Winslow
Published: Aug. 12, 2007 12:24 a.m. MDT
"The statement comes across a fax machine with all the impact of a kick in the gut: "Thank God for the Utah Mine Disaster."
Members of a Kansas-based church notorious for picketing military funerals to generate publicity for their anti-gay cause have announced plans to picket any memorial services for the six miners trapped inside the Crandall Canyon Mine.
That's assuming they are dead, the Westboro Baptist Church concedes.
A statement by the group pledges to picket in central Utah with a warning: "God Hates Fags!""
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