Word: topeka
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...ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND THE UPTOWN...
...which a 24-hour news cycle and habitual political spin can make the most earnest public gesture seem tired or canned, they appear to be the real thing: a spontaneous mass movement. They formed as a response to the Rev. Fred Phelps, an attention-crazed fanatic based in Topeka, Kans., who has logged 15 years as a kind of paleo-fundamentalist, gay-baiting performance artist. Last spring Phelps grabbed the already troubling line, taken by preachers such as Pat Robertson, that disasters like 9/11 were God's punishment for American sins, and spun it past the boundary of the outrageous...
...over the course of the morning and afternoon, groups of protesters never surpassed more than 40 people at one time. Prior to the 10 a.m. oral arguments, a group of six people protesting on behalf of GodHatesFags.com, an anti-gay website sponsored by the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., picketed on the bottom stairs of the court while yelling epithets against homosexuals. “Shut your filthy mouths about your perversion or you’re going to hell,” one protester yelled, displaying a sign that read “Fags Doom Nation...
Prior to the 10 a.m. oral arguments, a group of six people protesting on behalf of GodHatesFags.com, an anti-gay website sponsored by the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., picketed on the bottom stairs of the court while yelling epithets against homosexuals...
...MATTHEW LIMON, 23, who was convicted in 2000 of having sex with a 14-year-old boy and sentenced to 17 years in prison; by the Kansas Supreme Court, which unanimously struck down a state law setting harsher punishments for underage homosexual sex than for underage heterosexual sex; in Topeka. The court ordered equal sentencing, saying "moral disapproval" did not justify the treatment of Limon, who would have received a maximum of 15 months in jail if he had had sex with an underage female...