The Fred Phelps-led Kansas City-based congregation Westboro Baptist Church is well known for protesting at servicemen's funerals and pop concerts, but they had never tangled with a devout Christian Country artist like Vince Gill. The multi-Grammy award-winning artists found protesters at a recent concert in Kansas City and Gill would not back down.

The singer, songwriter and guitar-slinger is currently touring in support of Bakersfield, a recent collaboration with steel guitar master Paul Franklin.

"I've been a lifelong lover of the instrument," Gill says. "I think that it emulates the human voice better than any other instrument. And maybe that's why I'm drawn to it so much. The sound of 'em -- it cries and it weeps and it has the emotion that a voice does."
Not only do Franklin and Gill take a stroll down Western swing memory lane each week during their standing gig with Nashville's Time Jumpers, they also share a lifelong love of hard-twanging, guitar-driven country that originated in Bakersfield, Calif. 

Knowing that the tour would take him to Kansas City, the hometown of the Westboro Baptist's - and seeing as how his current marriage to fellow performer and Gospel artist Amy Grant is neither Gill's nor Grant's first - he believed members of the WBC might show up at the Kauffman Center to protest the show.

YouTube user videographer Sienna Stylish posted a video of Gill confronting the Westboro Baptist Church members outside the Kauffman Center. Sienna Stylish's youtube profile says she's "dedicated to exposing the insanity of the Westboro Baptist 'Church,' " Gill says he "came out to see what hatred really looked like in the face."

When the WBC member filming the exchange asks Gill, "Don't you know that divorce plus marriage equals adultery?" He responds by saying, "Don't you know that you are lucky that you don't have a sign that says something about my wife?"