Westboro Baptist Church announced plans to rally at the Union from 8:15 to 8:45 a.m. on April 23.
The church, which caused national controversy in recent years for protesting fallen soldiers’ funerals, said on its website the rally will be focused on university curriculum, where “degrees of rebellion are passed out like candy.”
“After doomed America runs their children through the sausage grinders called high schools in the land, they pump them into the universities where seats of scorn and chairs of scorning have been endowed,” the group posted on their website about the event.
The group also plans to visit Eastern High School in Lansing at 7:15 a.m., and Central Michigan University at 2:00 p.m.
Three Westboro members picketed at East Lansing High school in November 2010, and hundreds from MSU and East Lansing assembled to protest.
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