OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The federal trial has ended in a lawsuit challenging Nebraska’s law requiring picketers to stay at least 500 feet from funerals.

The trial ended Thursday after attorneys for Topeka-Kansas based Westboro Baptist Church and the state, Omaha Police Department and Douglas County District Attorney’s Office rested. U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp dismissed the Douglas County prosecutor’s office from the lawsuit following testimony.

The church protests at funerals throughout the country using anti-gay chants and signs because it believes God is punishing U.S. military members and others for defending a nation that tolerates homosexuality.

The church reasons that the Nebraska law is selectively enforced and is unconstitutionally infringes on its free-speech rights.

Smith Camp will decide the case sometime after both sides submit closing briefs over the next three months.