Editing Fred Phelps (section)

===United Kingdom===
On February 18, 2009, two days before the Westboro Baptist Church's first UK picket, the United Kingdom [[Home Office]] announced that Fred Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper would be refused entry and that "other church members could also be flagged and stopped if they tried to enter Britain".<ref>{{cite news|url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/7898972.stm?lss|title=Anti-Gay Preachers Banned from UK|date=February 19, 2009|work=[[BBC Online]]|access-date=December 10, 2012}}</ref> In May 2009, he and his daughter Shirley were placed on the [[Home Office]]'s [[List of individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom|list of people barred from entering the UK]] for "fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence".<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/may/05/list-of-people-banned-from-uk|title=The Home Office List of People Banned from the UK|work=The Guardian|date=May 5, 2009|access-date=December 10, 2012}}</ref>