Controversial Kansas church plans demonstration at Beaver Stadium

Posted: 12:06pm on Nov 9, 2011; Modified: 9:02am on Dec 21, 2011

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Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church stands on a U.S. flag during a protest at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011. Phelps-Roper is from Topeka, Kan. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, John Locher) JOHN LOCHER — ASSOCIATED PRESS

The controversial anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas, infamous for picketing military funerals on the belief that dead soldiers are the country’s punishment for promoting homosexuality, is planning a protest Saturday at Beaver Stadium, according to the church’s website.

Church members have scheduled a demonstration from 10 a.m. to noon in response to allegations that former football coach Jerry Sandusky abused eight boys over 15 years and questions over whether the university mishandled a 2002 report of a sexual assault by Sandusky on the University Park campus.

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