Westboro Baptist Church to protest at Roger Ebert's funeral The homophobic group took issue with a tweet that the film critic wrote in March

The Westboro Baptist Church, which has been petitioned to be classified as a hate group, plans to picket the funeral of legendary film critic Roger Ebert on Monday morning.

Westboro took issue with the Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, who died on Thursday, after he tweeted out a link to an excerpt from Jeff Chu's book "Does Jesus Really Love Me?" on Salon, in which Chu, a gay man, goes undercover to spend four days in Kansas studying the homophobic group. Ebert tweeted two links, saying in one of them, "Just another day at Westboro Baptist."

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Westboro's protest will begin at 9:15 a.m. From the press release:

American entertainment industry publicity leech Roger Ebert took to Twitterverse to mock the faithful servants of God at Westboro Baptist Church, just days before he received the horrifying summons: “Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: [now] whose shall [that silly vanity called a Pulitzer Prize] be, which thou has provided?” (Luke 12:20) This fool sold his soul for some fame & fortune, forgetting that God has made a simple declaration regarding His people: “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.” (Psalms 105:15). Now the famed critic is in a new jurisdiction, where he can see the blessings poured out on God's humble servants in heaven, from his seat of eternal torment & sorrow in Hell!

Ebert's funeral will be held at 10 a.m. at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, and is open to the public.