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Counter-demonstrators shout the pledge of allegiance at members of controversial preacher Fred Phelps family stationed across the street who are protesting against abortion and homosexuality as a policeman stands watch and a reporter records sound a few blocks from the College Hill United Methodist Church before the funeral for assassinated abortion doctor George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas on June 6, 2009. Tiller was gunned down while serving as an usher at his church last Sunday by Scott Roeder, who is now in custody, in a political crime with reverberations across the region and the country; Tiller's Wichita clinic had previously served as a culture wars flashpoint in the 1990s.