that you should leadership to this is this is the kind of this leadership terry terry jones and fred phelps demonstrate is a kind of get out of the raises called abusive ghetto well cheri let me ask you this surely let me ask you this surely first of all when you scream too loud your sound goes out just to let you know but i in this press release that you wrote today you wrote god hates america have got it's america why do you live here well we're almost through with our testimony to this country and when we are god will take us out of this country you understand all roads lead to the united states supreme court when that when that supreme court upholds the rule of law and says that we have done exactly what we were entitled to do under the law this nation's going to throw such a fit what is that what is that i have to clarify what is. if the supreme court is going to validate here a lot the last time i was on your program was over that snyder case and it's coming up on october the sixth this cream court's going to rule on whether or not we have a first amendment or dots and when and what t

. >> reporter: that's shirley phelps-roper, the daughter of the founder of westboro, fred phelps, whoto the radio to proclaim the group's twisted theological argument, that the many sorrows of elizabeth edwards' life were all god's punishments for her support of gay rights, abortion rights and other issues. >> she used her money and her standing in this country to defy her creator. >> reporter: do you like doing this? >> oh, i love it. if you knew how fun. >> reporter: in october, we rode along with the westboro members as they arrived in washington for their big day in court, the supreme court, where their protests at military funerals have triggered a major first amendment case. ♪ ♪ crying about your feelings ♪ for your sin no shame ♪ you're going straight to hell ♪ ♪ on your crazy train >> reporter: all this manic hatred has now sparked a counter protest. on facebook and elsewhere, people are planning to come to the edwards funeral on saturday and block the westboro protests from being seen by any of the bereaved. >> success to us would be that if on sunday morning the headline rea