Picketed during rescue efforts at the World Trade Center sites after the
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Drain, his fellow congregates,
and church leader
Fred Phelps called for rescue workers to leave still
living victims in the rubble on the grounds that they believed the
attacks were a sign from God and that those who were wounded deserved
to die. Drain, Phelps, and the other members of Westboro were told to
leave or they would be arrested.