They are cowards. We scared them off in my hometown a couple of years ago. They publicized that they were coming to protest the funeral of a local soldier who had been killed in Iraq. The entire community came together in a very peaceful manner to shield the family from them. People lined up all along the funeral procession route and were planning to stand in front of the Westboro protesters so that the family would be shielded from seeing them. There were well over 2 thousand people who participated. We were told not to confront them or say anything at all. just to peacefully line up and show support for the family.

When the Westboro trash pulled into town and saw what our community was doing, they promptly left without even showing their faces.

If the Community up there will do the same, they will not show up. They only show up where there is very little organized protest against them.