WBC has no official affiliation with mainstream Baptist organizations. WBC’s leader is Fred Phelps and several of his children and doze ns of his grandchildren appear to constitute the majority of the group’s members. Incorporated in 1967 as a not-for-profit organization, WBC considers itself an “Old School (or Primitive)” Baptist Church. The group pickets institutions and individuals they think suppor t homosexuality or otherwise subvert what they believe is God’s law. The Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is a small virulently homophobic, anti-Semitic hate group that regularly stages protests around the country, often several times a week.