Dumb and dumber: Infamous hate church meets match when the KKK shows up to counter-protest at its Memorial Day demo

Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church were met by members of the KKK when they held a Memorial Day protest at Arlington Cemetery.



The demonstrators from the Kansas-based church, which has sought publicity by picketing the funerals of U.S. soldiers, were confronted by groups of counter-protesters.



They included about 10 members of a Virginia group called Knights of the Southern Cross that claims to be a branch of the Ku Klux Klan.



Meeting of minds: Protesting members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church were met by a branch of the Ku Klux Klan

The protests and counter-protests came hours before President Obama led Memorial Day events at the National Cemetery.



The members of the Ku Klux Klan, who were kept in a separate area from the church members, gave out small American flags behind a banner that read ‘POW-MIA’.

The KKK protesters said they objected to the church’s anti-troops message.



‘It's the soldier that fought and died and gave them that right to free speech,’ Dennis LaBonte, the ‘Imperial Wizard’ of the KKK group that he said he founded himself, told CNN.



‘That's fine,’ replied Abigail Phelps, the daughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps.



Unhappy: Dennis LaBonte, the 'Imperial Wizard' and founder of the KKK group said they opposed the church's anti-troops message

‘They have no moral authority on anything,’ she told CNN.



‘People like them say it's white power, white supremacy,’ she added.



‘The Bible doesn't say anywhere that it's an abomination to be born of a certain gender or race.’



Miss Phelps said the three protesters from the controversial church were there to tell people they should not "idolise" the dead, especially those who died for an ‘unrighteous cause’.



Mr LaBonte denied that his group is not racist but said he believes the white race is ‘slowly and most assuredly being denigrated’.



Publicity: The Westboro Baptist Church has attracted attention by picketing the funeral of U.S. soldiers

A group of about 70 protesters also turned out to counter the Westboro demonstration.



‘I think they're twisted and confused, and we're just here to show them there are people who think they're completely wrong,’ protester Malaika Elias told CNN.



