From The International Business Times-
Controversial Westboro Baptist Church was a no-show at the Betty Ford funeral on Tuesday, throwing the group's creditably further into question.
Westboro phones ran unanswered into the afternoon, while picketers were nowhere to be found at Saint Margaret Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, Calif., where the service was held.
The group had publicly announced on Monday that it would oppose the memorial saying that because Ford was divorced and espoused pre-marital sex, she is now currently "in hell."
"She loved to sit with tawdry muckraking reporters & blather about sex," the group said on its website. "She couldn't wait to have an audience with a reporter to titter about premarital sex, and how much she loved to teach it to her daughters."
The group, run by disbarred lawyer Fred Phelps, and denounced by other Christian churches, said it would picket Tuesday at services at Saint Margaret Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, Calif, and Thursday at Grace Episcopal Church in East Grand Rapids .
More here-
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/178898/20110712/westboro-a-no-show-at-betty-ford-funeral.htm
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