

You mean our friends across the pond didn't want this "Made in the USA" export? Particularly the part where Shirley Phelps-Roper offers up the naked posteriors of the Topeka, Kansas-based religious right extremists. (BBC):A father and daughter from a US church which preaches hatred of homosexuals have been banned from entering the UK. Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) had urged protests against a play being put on in Hampshire.Hat tip, Denabeth.Queen Mary's College in Basingstoke is staging The Laramie Project, a play about a man killed for being gay.
..."Unless they intend to begin checking the bare backsides of every person coming into that country to find that tattoo that says 'Property of WBC' - they will have no way of identifying who is from WBC."
She called the British government "filthy" for thinking they have the power "to keep the word of God from coming into her borders".
The UK Border Agency said it opposed "extremism in all its forms".
A spokesman added: "Both these individuals have engaged in unacceptable behaviour by inciting hatred against a number of communities.



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