You are confusing New Anonymous with EDiots. The general opinion of Westboro here is they are master irl trolls.
Westboro Baptist Church is just what happens when christians do somewhat less picking and choosing of the parts of the Bible they listen to.
I go to a lot of service funerals, my only gripes with em is just how hard they make it not crack a smile, that and all the fuckn' bandito biker shit heads they bring to the yard.... The WB actively express daily the rights real soldiers live and die to protect. While they would love to watch us burn in hell, a red hot pitch fork in my ass, they make all the long nights, fire fights and dead friend seem more worth it than just about any other group of fat fuck, free medical wanting, A-OK NSA, Obama phone talkn' shits. The damn banditos line up to defend the ceremonies because somehow fuck'n with others right to free speech is honoring the lives of the troops that die protecting those very rights and it totally makes up for all the meth those sorry fuckers flood into neighborhoods via Jr. Highschools.
At first I found them funny, now that people have gotten wise to them I find it more funny to watch them fail. Photoshoping themselves into events they didn't really go to, hiding out at their hotels when they realize people are waiting for them at the funeral to counter protest them... They provide good entertainment.
The Phelpses are lawyers. They don't believe in the shit they're spewing, they're hoping for someone to clock them on camera so they can sue the living daylights out of them and cash in.
The right to counter protesting is just as important to protect as protesting. Agree that they're refreshing to observe at the minimum considering the scores of boring do nothings everywhere.