The [Westboro Baptist Church](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church) is notorious for picketing things like funerals and they generate a lot of attention by doing so. A common trend in discussions about the church goes something like:

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> Someone should just beat all of them up
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> No, don't! They'll sue you. They get most of their money from suing people that try to hurt them!
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The gist is that a significant portion of their organization are lawyers and they are consistently trolling people in an attempt to provoke an action that they can then sue over.

Is this even close to reality? Does Westboro Baptist Church engage in a significant number of lawsuits over incidents at their activities?