A group of people for Tennessee just figured out why the war in Iraq isn’t going as smoothly as most of us her in the U.S. would like.

The Rev. Fred Phelps, founder of Westboro Baptist in Kansas, contends that American soldiers are being killed in Iraq as vengeance from God for protecting a country that harbors gays. The church, which is not affiliated with a larger denomination, is made up mostly of Phelps' children, grandchildren and in-laws.
The church members carried signs and shouted things such as "God hates fags" and "God hates you.

Stories like this make me wish the Department of Defense would expand its global fight against extremism.