British government bans Fred Phelps, daughter from entering U.K.

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British government bans Fred Phelps, daughter from entering U.K.
By MALCOLM GARCIA
The Kansas City Star

The British government has banned Fred Phelps and his daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper from entering the United Kingdom.

The Phelpses, whose protests at military members’ funerals in the U.S. have prompted lawsuits and legislation, apparently had planned to fly to the United Kingdom to protest a performance of “The Laramie Project.”

The play about the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay student who was killed in 1998 in Laramie, Wyo., is scheduled to open today at Queen Mary’s College in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

“Both these individuals have engaged in unacceptable behavior by inciting hatred against a number of communities,” a U.K. Border Agency spokesman told the Times Online, the online site of The Times of London. “The government has made it clear it opposes extremism in all its forms.”

http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/1044016.html

[get the red out]

1. I wish they would go to another country

and get arrested. Then they could keep them.