FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – The Westboro Baptist Church is scheduled to speak outside two high schools in Fresno County later this month.
The group, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America,” says their presence outside the schools is to allow the students there “to understand the truth of God.”
“We bring this gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, preaching to every creature, so that in the day of judgment, which is upon this nation, as is her destruction, there will be none that can say I did not know,” Shirley Phelps-Roper with the Westboro Baptist Church said.
The Westboro Baptist Church’s (WBC) website reveals the group is scheduled to publicly preach at Roosevelt High School in Fresno and Reedley High School in Reedley. The two events are the only two taking place on the West Coast.
The scheduled events will take place on Oct. 28 at Roosevelt High School in Fresno from 3:55 p.m. to 4:25 p.m. – and on Oct. 31 at Reedley High School from 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m.