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"Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church are coming to Milwaukee to protest against other churches.They'll be greeted upon their arrival this weekend by counter-protesters.Organizers used social media to form a united front against the Kansas-based church known for its anti-gay message and for protesting at soldier's funerals.\"I want everybody to know that Milwaukee is a welcoming community and that we respect people of all different belief systems,\" counter-protester Chris Krasovich said. \"We've set up a Facebook event to connect like-minded individuals who might want to plan to carpool or get out to the locations that Westboro will have a presence at and we will be staging a counter protest.\"The Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist will be one of Westbrook's targets, along with churches from other denominations.WISN's Terry Sater spoke with one of Westboro's leaders, Margie Phelps, about why the church is targeting seven Milwaukee-area churches and their pastors.\"What they do is have a love of money and they love to be greeted in the marketplace and they will tell you any lies as long as you come in there and put money in that plate,\" Phelps said.Local mega-church Elmbrook is one of Westbrook's targets.\"The message of our church is that we should be showing love towards people that maybe don't agree with us and that's really what the message of the gospel is to share love, to share the love of Christ,\" Elmbrook Church parishioner Josh Melder said.The Westboro members see such churches in a different light.\"It's a hotbed of false prophets who are teaching people to sin hand over fist,\" Phelps said.The Westboro protesters will also show up at Miller Park at the Fourth of July festivities to demonstrate against America's \"worship of sports figures.\"Their church protests will be Sunday.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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