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REEDLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The City of Reedley has spoken retired against the "incendiary and divisive" connection dispersed by the Westboro Baptist Church ahead of their scheduled objection astatine Reedley High School.
The City of Reedley announced Tuesday that they received a fax dated Oct. 3, 2024, from Phelps-Chartered, Attorneys-At-Law successful Topeka, Kansas, announcing the organization's volition to behaviour a spiritual work extracurricular the gates of Reedley High School.
Officials authorities the missive reads the nationalist objection is, "regarding the judgement of God with respect to the dangers of promoting homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and the filthy mode of beingness and idol worshipping of this nation."
As good arsenic Reedley, the lone different West Coast determination to person a sojourn from the Westboro Baptist Church is outside Roosevelt High School.
City officials successful Reedley accidental they bash not cognize wherefore their metropolis was chosen.
"Reedley is simply a divers assemblage that respects 1 another, honors 1 another, and treats 1 different with dignity," said Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba.
City officials authorities that portion the enactment is exercising its law close to escaped code and peaceable assembly, the metropolis does not condone its message.
"As City employees, however, we person taken an oath to uphold the Constitution which guarantees them their close to escaped speech, careless of however incendiary and divisive we whitethorn personally find their message. In that respect, the Police Department volition beryllium connected manus to guarantee a peaceful demonstration," Zieba said.
Several organizations successful Fresno County are expected to counter-protest Westboro's objection astatine some events. Officials impulse each demonstrators to respect each section ordinances and postulation laws - particularly regarding pedestrians connected sidewalks oregon unlawfully blocking oregon entering roadways.
The metropolis reassures the nationalist that the constabulary section is moving intimately with Kings Canyon Unified School District unit to guarantee students and parents are safe. Police volition beryllium successful beforehand of the schoolhouse connected the time of the planned event.
