I first became aware of Fred Phelps during his attempts to get a monument placed in Central Park at Casper, Wyoming. The monument would have been a dedicated to the late Matthew Shepard, the native son of Casper beaten to death for being gay. The monument would have declared Shepard to be burning in hell.

The proposal left the city in a bind. The park was public, but had held a Ten Commandments monument donated by the Fraternal Order of Eagles since the sixties. The city could not declare that the park was off limits to private religious groups with that on display.

As I read up on the case, it occurred to me that Phelps was making a stronger argument for secularism than the ACLU and the Freedom Fromis needed to prevent the head from moving side to side, which would result in the head reading the wrong track.
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