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    Vol.62/No.44           December 7, 1998 
 
 
Chicago: 1,500 protest antigay picket  
More than 1,500 people joined a demonstration November 22 in Chicago in response to Rev. Fred Phelps, a right-wing antigay preacher from Topeka, Kansas. Phelps and his family were picketing the Broadway United Methodist Church in Lakeview, where Rev. Gregory Dell recently performed a same-sex marriage. Phelps picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young gay man killed in Wyoming in October. The antigay protesters carried signs that read: "2 gay rights: AIDS and Hell."

 
 
 
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