Shirley Phelps-Roper defends her decision to protest at funerals. The Phelpses’ appearance on the supermodel’s syndicated talk show was surreal — not just because Phelps-Roper took the unusual step of ...

PHOENIX - Members of the Westboro Baptist Church won't picket the funerals of the victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson that left six dead. Church spokeswoman Shirley Phelps Roper said Wednesday ...

As host of a current events radio show, one of the things I like to do is take a hot topic in the news and turn it into a talk topic on my show. The crusade of Shirley Phelps-Roper is no exception. As ...

Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper (née Phelps; born October 31, 1957) is an American lawyer and political activist. She was the lead spokesperson of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, an ...

PITTSTON – Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church promises a peaceful protest today at the funeral service of Army Spc. Dale Kridlo. But city officials are more concerned about people ...

Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps died before midnight Wednesday at age 84, his children Tim Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper confirmed to Kansas news outlets. Phelps’s estranged son Nate had ...

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska's law to protect the American flag is unconstitutional, says a legal challenge filed for a Kansas woman. Shirley Phelps-Roper has been charged with letting her 10-year ...

A small church known for its anti-gay protests said it would still picket on the day of soldiers’ funerals but wouldn’t violate new state laws that limit when and where such demonstrations take place.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) -- Shirley Phelps-Roper and her attorney want to know exactly why she has been criminally charged for protesting at a Bellevue soldier's funeral in June, so they can challenge the ...

Megan Phelps-Roper is an American political activist who was formerly a member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church, a Calvinist Christian sect categorized as a hate group. Her mother ...

Two members of the gay-bashing Westboro Baptist Church have failed to post bonds in time and are appealing to a higher court to delay doing so. U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett last month ordered ...

KANSAS CITY — Members of a controversial Kansas church have decided not protest at the funeral of a 9-year-old girl killed in Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz. Shirley Phelps-Roper of the ...