So you would be okay with the Fred Phelps crowd showing up at the home a family who lost their father in the WoT and permit them to ask questions of the widow as she and her children walk into their home?
I think of the crazed photographers and reporters following everyone important home. Don’t they have the right to be on the sidewalk? Don’t the boom boxes blasting base speakers invade my privacy in every part of my home when they drive down the street? MY QUESTION WILL BE...WHY DOES A MURDERER HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE IN PEACE AND QUIET, when every day he does his “work”. Legally I could simply play a base heartbeat 24/7 and drive him crazy. If I weren’t told to love my enemies as I want to be (I hate boom boxes), I would invest in one tomorrow and sit outside the wichita abortion clinic, but I couldn’t stand it myself, and the pre-born would hear it too.
I think because of the people willing to protect the families, that the police got involved, and the Phelps folks were shouted down in some towns (with people waving flags, and keeping the Phelps folks out of view...
The Phelps gang (friends of Al Gore) is a different issue to me: it violates Freedom of Religion -- the right to have a solemn funeral for a dearly departed one...
But that is my viewpoint...
I think the IRS are after the Phelps gang because it is all family members, and they claim it is a church... (And maybe the IRS should be after them...)
But towns have tried to put ordinances in place to prevent the Phelps gang from protesting only to have those ordinances overruled by liberal courts...