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Mar 12, 2012 By Mike Hilleary Photography by Nigel Godrich Radiohead

Appearing in Kansas City, Missouri over the weekend as part of their ongoing tour through the states, Radiohead found themselves the subject of protest by the gay-bashing, dead soldier praising group known as the Westboro Baptist Church. According to a statement on the group’s website:

”You have stolen the Word of God from your people and children, and as a sorry substitute, you prop up lightness and lies. You try to get the people to look at the nonsense and not at the wrath of God that abides upon them. “Look at the circus monkey over there and the fluffy setting, blah, blah…” Meanwhile, God is undoing this nation and effecting all of your lives, with the moth that quietly eats the very fabric of your national garment. Radiohead is just such an event. Freak monkey’s with mediocre tunes keeps you busy and focused by lightness. It changes nothing, God is undoing and digging up and throwing down this nation.”

Radiohead’s Nigel Godrich found the whole thing absurdly hilarious, joking on his Twitter account that the protest was the “highlight of the tour so far.”

(http://www.radiohead.com)