Westboro Baptist Church, the church of hate that pickets funerals to highlight its vile attacks, will picket the funeral of the little girl and five others who were killed in Saturday's shooting rampage.

Fred Phelps, in an offensive press release you may not want to read in full, announced Sunday he will bring his tiny band of followers, fresh from last month's Elizabeth Edwards funeral, to this wounded city because, "That's how God the avenger rolls," he says.

Phelps's video is headlined "God sent the shooter." (He recycled the sign idea from when Westboro picketed the funeral of assassinated physician George Tiller.) Watch if you can stand it as Phelps blasts these victims as "sinners" and intones that we are all in God's cross-hairs.

But better use of time might be to rally the people of Tucson and all who can join them to smother this grenade by throwing a blockade around those pickets, one well stocked with genuine believers in those religions that teach God loves, and wants the best for, humanity.

Speaker of the House John Boehner said Saturday that the attack on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords that killed nine-year-old Christina Green, a federal judge, a 76-year-old man who died saving his injured wife from more bullets and three others is "an attack on us all."

Is Westboro Church attacking us all spiritually as well?