I don't know. I'd say it's on par with global warming is making the sky fall so we must all make ourselves poor to appease Gaia.
Posted on 07/01/2009 2:47:40 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
KANSAS CITY, MO. - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Missouri's appeal to allow the state to enforce it's law restricting protests near funerals. The law targeted a Topeka Baptist church that protests military funerals.
The Westboro Baptist Church filed a lawsuit against the state after it passed two laws creating a no protest buffer zone around funerals and processions.
Westboro Baptist Church out of Topeka protests the funerals saying soldiers deaths are God's punishment because of U.S. policy toward homosexuals.
(Excerpt) Read more at fox4kc.com ...
in 2006 :
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court in Jefferson City, Mo., on behalf of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church, which has outraged mourning communities by picketing service members’ funerals with signs condemning homosexuality.
I thought they quit protesting funerals and are now harping on synagogues.
In WWII, it was not so. At least the legislation hadn't come about yet. And about 500,000 Americans died in war.
Certainly it is unBiblical. But these kinds of stunts only give an improper impression of Christianity. On the flip side, many cities have gay pride parades, which is equally as bizarre.
These protests are constitutionally protected speech, and they must be permitted by law. The morons from WBB can be barred from private property by trespass law. The morons can be dodged by changing routes, but they cannot be arrested for free speech. I’m disgusted with the methods they use, but the government cannot suppress their speech.
The First Amendment is precious.
I don't know. I'd say it's on par with global warming is making the sky fall so we must all make ourselves poor to appease Gaia.
FYI: Westboro Baptist is not logical, a church or civilized. "By their fruits ye shall know them!"
on behalf of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church,
Actually it is a cult made up mostly of people from one family.
Having been at a funeral they sent a couple of their morons to protest, they were completely marginalized by patriotic Americans who formed American Flag lines between the morons and the Church were the funeral was being conducted. Few people attending the funeral ever even knew that the portestors were there.
Especially with the Left’s new hate speech law. Protected speech must be extreme. All of it - the stuff we love and the stuff we despise! Hate speech is best handled with more and louder speech confronting it.
snipers to the fore
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