Members of the Westboro Baptist Church are returning to Central Michigan University on the invite of a journalism professor who is using the widely-reviled group as a foil for a lesson on freedom of speech. Shirley Phelps-Roper, her brother Fred Phelps Jr., and two other women from the Topeka, Kan.-based independent family church will appear in three of Professor Timothy Boudreau’s classes on Monday, April 23. Phelps-Roper previously brought her two daughters, Rebekah and Megan, to CMU on Boudreau’s invite in November 2010. The trio debated students about their practice of protesting at funeral services for American soldiers killed in Iraq.
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