[conservative in nyc]

States are rushing to limit when and where people may protest at funerals — all because of a small fundamentalist Kansas church group of sleazeball lawyers whose members picket soldiers’ burials, arguing that Americans are dying for a country that harbors homosexuals.

There. I fixed it. The Westboro Baptist Church is as fundamentalist Christian as Buddhists, Jains and Sunni Muslims. Their "church" and protests are a front to shake down cities and towns who violate their "right" to protest.

[conservative in nyc]

And to further my point, from the article:

Shirley Phelps-Roper, Phelps’ daughter and an attorney for the church, said states cannot interfere with their message that the soldiers were struck down by God because they were fighting for a country that harbors homosexuals and adulterers.

Lawmakers are “trying to introduce something that will make them feel better about the holes we’re punching in the facade they live under,” Phelps-Roper said. “If they pass a law that gets in our way, they will be violating the Constitution, and we will sue them for that.”