Cory Monteith Death: Westboro Baptist Church Picketing Funeral, Shirley Phelps 'GLEEful Over God's Righteous Judgment' (SEE TWEETS)

"Glee" star Cory Monteith was tragically found dead in his Vancouver hotel room on Saturday, and amid mass mourning, the Westboro Baptist Church has plans to picket the 31-year old star's funeral, the Huffington Post reports.

The church announced on Saturday via Twitter that they plan to picket Monteith's funeral, part of their ongoing mission to protest anything and everything they are against by bandwagoning on media and news events in an attempt to create an uproar.

Westboro Baptist Church tweeted: "Cory Monteith found dead in Vancouver hotel room - STRUCK DOWN BY RAGING MAD GOD!," following up with a tweet today that reads: "GLEEful prep underway 4 burial of this ass. Silly rebs-entities cant be banned-only people. I'm not Fred.

The "I'm not Fred" is likely a reference to church patriarch Fred Phelps, whose daughter Shirley Phelps, a lawyer and politician, has infamously taken on the church's role as primary spokesperson. The Phelps clan of Topeka, Kans. and their followers are known for picketing funerals of AIDs victims with signs that carry messages like "God hates f**s" and American soldiers killed in combat, celebrating the death of those they deem sinners. The church also announced they would picket a vigil for the victims of Sandy Hook in December of last year, and in 2008, crossed Canadian borders in an attempt to picket the funeral of a 22-year old murdered on a Greyhound bus.

Shirley Phelps is currently banned from the U.K. for "fostering extremism or hatred." On her Twitter, Shirley Phelps wrote that she is "GLEEful over God's righteous judgment to end @CoryMonteith's life," describing Monteith's character on "Glee" as a perpetuator of Chris Colfer's role as a gay teen.

Most of Hollywood and "Glee" fans and casual viewers alike have taken to Twitter to express their condolences over the tragic loss of Cory Monteith.

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