Good news is that Fred Phelps has died.. Bad news is that some of his family members are still around to carry on his hatred.

 

http://www.queerty.com/breaking-fred-phelps-is-dead-20140320/

I read some of the comments people wrote after the article on the link you posted.  I liked this one:

 

"I guess we should lower our Rainbow Flags to half mast."

Yep, unfortunately there are still some bad genes floating around there; regardless, in honor of the event, think I'll have a bacardi coke to celebrate. 

Further news to celebrate- he was supposedly ousted from the church before he passed away.

Awww.

back at it without him:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5104904.html (and run out of town )

 

 

"Amanda Eccles said to KFOR-TV, “It’s just sickening. You know, it’s just innocent kids that lost lives and it’s sickening for them to even think that way.”

Though WBC reportedly had a permit to picket for half an hour beginning at 2:00 p.m., they stayed for a mere eight minutes before hastily getting into their cars and driving away when Moore residents began to cross the picket lines. Police intervened to separate the protestors and counter-protestors as the WBC rushed to leave.

The Westboro Baptist Church posted a Vine video afterwards which failed to mention their hasty departure:

“I thought it was hilarious. I mean I really did. We sat there and laughed the whole time,” Tina Johnson, a counter-protester, commented. “They were running, yeah.”

Dan Eccles told KFOR, “They shagged tail, got in them cars and was leaving in a hurry. Oh yeah, they was gone!”

Moore Police reported that no one was arrested or taken into custody after the incident. According to KOCO local news, the police said that despite the high amount of tension, the crowd remained "relatively respectful."