"It's worse than that, Jim..."
According to Margie Phelps, daughter of Wesboro Baptist Church minister Fred Phelps, protesters from Topeka will stand on sidewalks holding signs that read "America Is Doomed" and "Thank God for IEDs," (IED being an "improvised explosive device," a reference to a roadside bomb or mine, which killed Piper and two of his fellow soldiers).
Phelps said, "This nation has institutionalized the most grievous sin (homosexuality)" and that God is taking vengeance on the United States through the killing of American soldiers and 9/11.
That's from The Daily Item of Flynn, Mass. [Here's their front page, with more on the funeral, but not the pic Tony found.]
It would seem that the orientation of the fallen is not an issue. Their claim is deeper and far more insidious.