Members of the notorious fundamentalist church arrived in Orlando over the weekend to picket the funerals of the victims of the shooting.

Funerals for some of the 49 victims of the Orlando shooting were held over the weekend with hundreds of mourners in attendence.

Funerals for two of the 49 victims killed in the shooting at a Florida nightclub have been marked by tense scenes, as an impatient driver was accused of injuring two officers and one burial took place under the watch of anti-gay protesters.

Five people face criminal charges after a weekend confrontation with members of a Kansas church group that pickets military funerals because it believes US casualties in Iraq are a sign of God’s punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality, authorities said today.