is threatening to picket Beaver Stadium before Saturday's Penn State football game against Nebraska, the group announced today on its website. The church says the game takes place between "two doomed states" and calls retiring

"the Pope of Happy Valley."

Attention has been directed to State College in the aftermath of sex-crimes charges against former assistant coach

and an alleged cover-up at Penn State University. Athletic director Tim Curley and vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz have both been charged with perjury and

.

President Graham Spanier and coach Paterno have not been charged with any crimes in the case, but their futures are less than certain.

, but it's unclear whether that retirement will be effective immediately or by season's end.

Kansas-based

, such as children's deaths in fires or military personnel killed in wars.

"Stop sinning, and your kids will stop dying," Westboro member Margie Phelps said in March. The church has made headlines in Pennsylvania recently after picketing a York County soldier's funeral then winning a Supreme Court case that protected its freedom of speech. Later, the church

who were killed in a fire.

The Penn State-Nebraska game is set for a noon kickoff at Beaver Stadium. Westboro Baptist Church says it will picket between 10 a.m. and noon.