Westboro group calls off one protest for airtime

Protest of Aiken soldier's funeral called off, still on in Lexington
By Logan Smith
AIKEN, SC (WIS) - A controversial church from Kansas has backed off its plans to protest during the funeral of a slain Aiken war veteran, accepting time on a local radio station as a tradeoff. However, the group still plans to picket the funeral of a Lexington soldier killed in the same attack.

Westboro Baptist Church member Shirley Phelps-Roper told the Augusta Chronicle they were offered an hour of unedited airtime on radio station WGAC-AM in exchange for staying away from Thursday's funeral for Staff Sgt. Willie J. Harley Jr. of Aiken.

But the anti-Semitic and anti-gay group still plans to picket outside the funeral of Specialist Luther Rabon of Lexington. Rabon and Harley of Aiken were killed in Afghanistan earlier this month when their vehicle was attacked by insurgents with an Improvised Explosive Device.
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