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The onslaught begins: Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church began its anti-gay crusade with pickets in 1991 at Gage Park in Topeka, Kan. Soon, the church was claiming that it carried out 40 pickets every week. GETTY IMAGES/TIM BOYLE