Posted on 03/29/2010 12:46:18 PM PDT by SmithL
Edited on 03/29/2010 12:48:04 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
AP material must be excerpted at all times.
It won't be reversed. The Phelps know what they're doing and they're good at it.
Someday these folks are going to mess with someone who has nothing to lose and this will be a very bad day for the Phelps family. And when this day comes, I'll feel not an ounce of sorrow for these despicable people.
“It only takes a spark....to get a fire going....and all of those around....can warm up to it’s glowing....”
Which would prove the point that Phelps’ words are intended to provoke violent confrontation. I’m sure he has his share of death threats.
You’ll get no argument from me there. I wonder why it hasn’t happened yet.
Jay Sekulow for one would be spoiling for a fight with the Phelps phony.
Perhaps we missed a real opportunity a few months back, when Ted Kennedy was planted. We should have had tens of thousands of our people out there to protest that prick’s life, and trash his relatives in the process.
Perhaps then Phelp’s antics would be more understood.
Nah, it’s better to realize that Phelps is a brain dead guttersnipe, and that the media in this nation is disgraceful beyond belief. We’ve got individual conscience, something they couldn’t come with up with one of if they pooled their collective resources.
I doubt that will be a problem...
According to the article SCOTUS has agreed to hear the case. How do you see what the enbreeded droolers do as differing from cross burning, which the SC has found not to be protected speech?
Those guys are not Baptists! I’m not even sure if they are human beings!
It truly is a disgrace to true Baptist’s everywhere that this group of misfits aligns itself with them.
I agree with you wholeheartedly on that one!
Ooh, I bet the Conservative 4 all voted for this one. Kennedy, do the right thing!
I wonder if anyone posting in this thread has heard the Phelps’ political-social-religious argument.
Sorry, not even a Phelps comparison turns mormons into Christians.
Another outrage regarding the Phelps Phreaks.
Because in their own sick, perverted way they believe they are protesting homosexuality and the war. Most of the lib anti-war protests included similar offensive speech and posters, heck they openly called for fragging, but I don't think we should shut them up with the courts. Cross burning is not protected when it is found to constitute a threat intended to intimidate.
“Baptist” isn’t a registered trade mark, so whacky one of a kind cultists like Phelps can use it with impunity (on this side of eternity). A similar situation exists with the term “Catholic.”
Of course not. This is like saying that Obama makes Jimmy Carter look like a Republican.
AP calls the Phelps cult “anti-gay protesters”.
Why not call them anti-Iraq war Democrats?
That’s also an accurate description and a more fitting description of why they protested the son’s funeral.
Suing was the wrong approach. Direct action would have been more appropriate. I would have risked jail time if it had been my son.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.