Sarah Palin rips Supreme Court decision on Westboro Baptist Church: lacks 'common sense'

Ny Daily News ^ | March 3, 2011 | Aliyah Shahid

[Free ThinkerNY]

Sarah Palin slammed the Supreme Court's ruling that members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church can protest homosexuality by continuing to picket military funerals.

"Common sense & decency absent as wacko 'church' allowed hate msgs spewed@ soldiers' funerals but we can't invoke God's name in public square," the former Alaska governor tweeted .

On Wednesday, the court voted 8 to 1 in favor of the Topeka, Kan., church, which has demonstrated at thousands of funerals and events across the country. It has been labeled a lunatic fringe for its tactics -- including protests at the funerals of U.S. soldiers and declarations that war deaths are God's punishment for the country's tolerance of gays.

Justice Samuel Alito was the lone dissenter in the case that pits free speech against privacy rights. He argued the First Amendment does not protect Americans who launch "vicious verbal attacks that make no contribution to public debate" during "a time of intense emotional sensitivity."

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Here's what Mark Steyn just wrote the other day about the Westboro decision:

"That’s one reason I found the Corner debate on the Westboro Supreme Court decision these last few days faintly surreal. In the rest of the west, Islam grasped very quickly that in some of the oldest free societies in the world the law bends according to the muscle you apply to it, and the Pansy Left (in Orwell’s phrase) will gladly concoct ever more tortured legalisms to explain why selling out core western values and incentivizing the thugs is the right thing to do."

These Muslims are not going to obey any laws. The Westboro people are not going to obey any laws. So we MUST push back.

If we hairsplit and obey every conceivable restriction placed on us, by ourselves or by others, then, we are in essence resigning to Islam, and to the Westboro Leftists, and to the Rats. It is over, right now.

This is a war. And you and other RINO pseudointellectuals need to accept the fact.

Westboro people, and other leftists, are trying to DECONSTRUCT and DESTROY DECENT, NORMAL SOCIETY through sophistry and legalism. THEY ARE COUNTING ON THE COWARDICE AND PASSIVITY OF THE RIGHT to get away with it.

And you are helping them out greatly by wallowing in self-hate and fecklessness, pretending to be some holier-than-thou referee for the Constitution.

Wake up.