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Westboro Baptist Church[edit]

One person gets to decide this isn't notable? I was willing to accept that at first and I went to the church own article, since there is a major counter-protest planned and the article has its own section on those.

I still have the radio on from Car Talk and I just heard an NPR reporter say "Elizabeth Edwards is a resident of Hell". (I just saw a columnist who says essentially that Fred Phelps will get to find that out firsthand.) And that she didn't ask God to cure her cancer (Oh, come now! She must have.) The article I just saw online said she was tolerant of gays; I can't remember now if NPR said that.

If NPR went into that much detail don't you think we're entitled to something here? If not, the Westboro article has it. For now.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:13, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think the protest should have its own subsection in this article. Fox, CNN, ABC, WRAL, and many other local and national news stations have been covering it. Roughly 1000 people are expected to show up and block the view of the Westboro Baptist Church parishoners from the Edwards family. --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 18:17, 11 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

5 showed up, but yes, there's been enough standalone coverage of Westboro Baptists to warrant an inclusion: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/11/national/main7140891.shtml Mosmof (talk) 01:25, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

← I reinstated mention of the protest, as it made no sense to talk only about a counterprotest without context, and the coverage of the Westboro threat was extensive before the funeral. But the details are unnecessary, given the fact that the threat was never realized. And no way this warrants anything more than a mention - in fact we might revisit this in a while to see if it remains notable. Tvoz/talk 08:42, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds fair.Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 23:54, 12 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Use of term "hate-group"[edit]

It does not seem very encyclopedic to term the church a "hate-group" because they oppose gay marriage. We may not agree with their views or tactics, but it seems childish and desperate to throw sticks and stones. Their actions should speak for themselves. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.62.85.141 (talk) 13:07, 19 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The phrase is referenced, and relevant. Also, please read the wikilinked article.Tvoz/talk 08:08, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

When you intrude on funerals and cause the family of the deceased to suffer in order to further your cause, that certainly qualifies as hate. Yes that phrase should stay in. -- 98.245.148.9 (talk) 09:21, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They are not considered a "hate group" just because of their oppostiton to gay marriage. Look at the Westboro Baptist Church article. They publically hate the LGBT community, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Mainline Protestantism, the United States government, the United States military, and many other groups and organizations. (They also supposedly hate African Americans.. also, interupting funerals with signs that say "GOD HATES ___" shows that they are a "hate group", the term should stay in the article. --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 21:49, 30 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What caused her breast cancer?[edit]

The article mentions she died of breast cancer but it doesn't give a suspected cause. I don't follow articles about her very much so I don't know the answer to this question, but doesn't fertility treatment run a risk of increased breast cancer??? If so, then wasn't her breast cancer possibly self-induced? I'm not a doctor - I don't know. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.161.38.27 (talk) 06:55, 3 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There is no evidence that fertility treatment can cause breast cancer. See risk factors of breast cancer. Jim Michael (talk) 05:55, 4 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]