LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — An extremist anti-gay group wants to erect a monument condemning a gay teenager who killed himself after being taunted by his peers and whose story became the subject of a documentary.

Fred Phelps, who leads the Topeka, Kan.-based Westboro Baptist Church, has formally asked the city for permission to install a six-foot pink granite edifice bearing the name of Jim Wheeler, a 1997 graduate of Cedar Crest High School and the subject of the film Jim in Bold.

The proposed monument would read, in part: “In Loving Memory of Jim Wheeler, Entered Hell November 17, 1997, at age 19, A Suicide Who Defied God’s Warning.”

In a letter to Lebanon Mayor Robert Anspach and the City Council, Phelps suggested Monument Park, which has a Civil War memorial, or Fisher Park, which has a Vietnam Veterans memorial, as suitable sites.

Local officials said they will reject the proposal.

“Mr. Wheeler was a fine resident of Lebanon County and an outstanding citizen. Let me assure you they will have to sue to get it up,” said Lebanon County Commissioner Bill Carpenter.

The group has tried to erect similar monuments to Matthew Shepard, a University of Wyoming student who was murdered in 1998 because he was gay.