Liars: The Westboro Baptist Church Did Not Protest at Whitney Houston's Funeral

The Star-Ledger reports they were not in attendance.

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The Westboro Baptist Church (first image), famous for protesting at the funerals of American soldiers killed in Iraq, claimed to have protested at Whitney Houston's funeral in Newark. Margie Phelps, the daughter of Fred Phelps (the founder of Westboro Baptist), tweeted about being at the funeral to protest. She event tweeted a photograph (second image).

But the New Jersey newspaper the Star-Ledger later wrote that "no active protests were occurring in the place depicted by the photograph."

Take a look at that photo. That's a bad photoshop job if we've ever seen one.

[via Gothamist]

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