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Found January 23, 2012 on Dr. Saturday:
PLAYERS: Joe Paterno
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Penn State will hold a public viewing for former coach Joe Paterno on Tuesday and Wednesday, and while thousands are expected to attend and pay their respects to State College's most respected citizen, a few in attendance will not be there to celebrate Joe Pa's life, but rather protest it. The Westboro Baptist Church, a group of hatemongers that protest the funerals of military members and children, have announced that they'll spew their anti-homosexual rhetoric at those there to mourn Paterno during his funeral. "Joe Paterno is dead. WBC will picket his funeral," Margie Phelps, daughter of Westboro's leader Pastor Fred Phelps, wrote on Twitter. "He's in hell. Don't partake of your neighbor's sin!" Paterno, 85, died Sunday from lung cancer, just a couple months after he was relieved of his duties as head coach of the Nittany Lions for his involvement of a child sex abuse scandal surrounding former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. ...
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