Fred Phelps Sr, founder of the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church, is reportedly on his death bed.

While it may be poor taste to use his impending death as an excuse for cheap laughs, he and his followers went out of their way to offend just about everybody. So it's what he would have wanted!

The most hated family in America has picketed the funerals of gays, celebrities and members of the military. They have thanked God for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake which claimed the lives of at least 70,000 people, and have called Jews the real Nazis.

With so much hatred, a little humour illustrate the ridiculousness of the church's views.

IBTimesUK salutes these anti-WBC protesters and creators of parody signs.