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Miltary Funeral Protesters Make Enemies With The KKK

By Beth Ford Roth / Home Post Blogger

Published May 31, 2011 at 9:37 AM PDT

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

Home Post Blog: Those most unappealing of folks, the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, have made some new enemies in the Ku Klux Klan. The protesters from Westboro (basically the family of Fred Phelps) decided to mark Memorial Day by demonstrating outside Arlington National Cemetery. The counter-protesters? The Knights of the Southern Cross, a local affiliate of the Klan, according to CNN. (Read more)

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