Orlando, Fla. — The fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church, known for its anti-gay protests, plans to demonstrate at the funeral for two victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting.

The church sent a letter to the Orlando Police Department outlining its plans to protest outside the church where the funeral will take place this weekend, according to USA Today.

Westboro members have protested outside funerals of gays and lesbians in the past, the paper said. The group has also staged anti-gay demonstrations at military funerals.

Pulse, the venue where the shooting took place, is a gay nightclub.

"It's not about that person, it's about that whole societal phenomenon," Westboro spokesman Steve Drain said, according to USA Today. "It's never been OK to be gay and it's never going to be OK to be gay, no matter how much the spirit of the times calls for the popularity of that sin."

Omar Mateen walked into Pulse early Sunday morning and killed 49 people. Police eventually shot and killed Mateen, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State during the massacre.

It has been reported that Mateen harbored anti-gay sentiments, but may also have been gay himself.

About six members of the Westboro church, which is based in Kansas, will be at this Sunday's protest, USA Today said.

The funeral will take place at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke, an Episcopal congregation known for its welcoming attitude toward the LGBT community, according to USA Today. The church made news last year for hosting the baptism of a child of a gay couple.

"That thing that happened in Orlando, it was a very tragic thing and it's a very sorrowful thing, but one of the aspects of the sorrow that people are missing in their kind of worldly, maudlin sentimentality is that all of those people in that whole business ... were doing that which God almighty calls a sin," said Drain, the Westboro spokesman, according to USA Today.

Local LGBT leaders in Orlando are planning an opposing demonstration to the Westboro gathering, according to the Orlando Sentinel. The GLBT Community Center of Central Florida is calling for peaceful protesters to block the "hate" spewed by Westboro.

The anti-Westboro protest will take place across the street.

"I'm not surprised evil reared its ugly head," said Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the center, according to the Sentinel. "We'll make sure they are not heard."

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