Border guards told to stop U.S. church fanatics

Canadian border guards have been told to bar members of a fanatical American church from entering the country after they announced plans to protest at the funeral of the man decapitated on a Greyhound bus, says a Winnipeg MP.

Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas-based fundamentalist sect, said the protest is to let Canadians know that the slaying of Tim McLean on July 30 was God’s response to Canadian policies enabling abortion, homosexuality and adultery.

NDP MP Pat Martin said his office was flooded with phone calls Thursday from Winnipeggers offended by the group’s plan.

“These people (the WBC) are almost as crazy as the murderer,” he said, referring to the protesters’ intentions.