(AP) - A member of a Kansas anti-gay church has filed an amended complaint in federal court adding more than a half dozen examples of how the church says a Nebraska funeral picketing law discriminates against it.
The amended lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Lincoln's U.S. District Court, challenges a 2011 Nebraska law that requires protesters to stand 500 feet away from a funeral service.
The amended complaint includes seven new examples in which Shirley Phelps-Roper says church members were kept up to 1,000 feet from funeral services, while counter protester were allowed immediately outside services.
The Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church protests at funerals around the country, contending that U.S. soldiers and others are being struck down by God for defending a nation that tolerates homosexuality.
© Associated Press
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