WARNING: Before reading this post, you might want to put a really tight hat on -- in order to keep your head from exploding.

Seems Fred Phelps has found himself an ally - yep, you guessed it - America's Craziest Liberals United!

ACLU Sues for Anti-Gay Group That Pickets at Troops' Burials

ASSOCIATED PRESS
By Garance Burke
Sunday, July 23, 2006; A02

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas church group that protests at military funerals nationwide filed suit in federal court, saying a Missouri law banning such picketing infringes on religious freedom and free speech.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court in Jefferson City, Mo., on behalf of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church, which has outraged mourning communities by picketing service members' funerals with signs condemning homosexuality.

The church and the Rev. Fred Phelps say God is allowing troops, coal miners and others to be killed because the United States tolerates gay men and lesbians...

Read the rest, if you can stand it.



You know, there was a time when the ACLU used to do really good things.

There was a time that the Edsel seemed like a good idea, too.




UPDATE: Now here's a different way to deal with the Phelps crew - watch this Australian reporter get Fred Phelps, Jr., on the run! (not for the kiddies)