Pennsylvania governor will offer police protection for Amish funerals

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell today said he will ask Amish elders if they want state police protection from a Kansas church group that plans to demonstrate at funerals of five girls fatally shot in an attack on their one-room schoolhouse.

Rendell also asked the members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, as well as members of the public and news media, to allow the Amish to conduct their funerals in privacy.