Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church are urging to support their stance on homosexuality.
The Topeka-based church says the Republican presidential candidate once “saw eye to eye” with them. Thompson was hired for a mid-1980s legal case in Kansas on the recommendation of Margie Phelps, daughter of Westboro founder Fred Phelps.
The church is now best known for protesting at soldiers’ funerals, claiming their deaths are retribution for the nation’s acceptance of homosexuality.
The Thompson campaign today dismissed the church as “a radical fringe group” looking for attention and said there’s “no way” members share Thompson’s values.
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