[InvisibleChurch]

[nmh]

This is heartbreaking.

Pray for this father and family. If you can find out more about him ... send him a check. This is beyond words ... This “church” is so full of HATE; it’s again, beyond civilized words to describe.

[WayneS]

Interesting. Except for SOME supreme court decisions, articles of this type hardly ever provide the names of the judges on a given court, and they VERY rarely tell which way they “voted”.

[murron]

I saw the young man’s picture on Bill O’Reilly last night and he looked so young! Their Marine picture is taken when they are almost finished boot camp, and I was thinking of all they go through at boot camp, and he was probably so glad to be almost finished. And then you go to their graduation and it’s such a moving ceremony. To lose your son is horrible, but then to have these jokers showing up at your son’s funeral would be all I could do to not go ballistic!

[Spok]

As the father of both a Marine and a soldier, if I ever set eyes on these rancid pukes...(I guess I’d better take the Fifth).

[lucky american]

I thought I heard Bill O’Riley paid for these costs.

Even though I disagree with him (BOR) on so many levels, he does put his money to good causes when it come to the troops.
God Bless you Bill.

[worst-case scenario]

It’s not tragic enough to lose a Marine son - but then to have these whited sepulchres wrapped in the American flag throwing offal on his memory?

And then to demand that the father pay the legal expenses for your unsought and sacrilegious activities?

I’ll send this father money, as well, if he loses altogether. And pray for him.

[DesertRhino]

I hope he keeps telling them to stick their evil decision that he pay them right up their wazoo,,,

When they come for him, people need to gather to prevent any arrest or eviction of this man. We all stand with him. It’s time to take this nation back. These ba$stards are supposed to fear us, not we them.

Go ahead judge, try to use force to make this marines father pay money to people who desecrated his sons funeral.

We the people *dare you*. Keep throwing those matches at the gas can. What will be the spark that sets up open defiance of the government despots??

[Mrs. Don-o]

First, support the Snyder family:
http://www.matthewsnyder.org/help.html

Second, when are the media ever going to notice that Phelps not only isn't Baptist, he doesn't even call himself Christian?

Link: http://eve-tushnet.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_eve-tushnet_archive.html#112474146614650981

What does Fred Phelps actually believe? It is, somehow, even weirder than you expected:

In fact, it appears that Westboro has created not just an incredibly vulgar and non-Christlike approach to homosexuality, but that it's working on a new religion altogether, complete with new scriptures.

Members of WBC generally avoid the name "Christian" when referring to themselves, preferring the mysterious term "Tachmonite."

The Tachmonites believe Phelps is "the last prophet," with the power to determine who will be damned and who will be saved. They themselves, as followers of Phelps, also have the power to condemn souls to hell. Most people are destined for hell, but "Good Samaritans" who help the Tachmonites (for example, police officers who prevent counter-protesters from assaulting them) may be offered an indeterminate "reward" for their good conduct.

They've written their own scriptures, which are divided into two categories: "delectable epics" and "letters to heretics." The "delectable epics" (the term is the group's) are based loosely on Acts in the New Testament. The epics detail the Tachmonites' various protests against gays, President Bush, Elton John concerts, and the military and portray the Tachmonites alternately as invincible "super heroes" and defenseless victims of brutal rage. Some of the epics are in prose, and some in poetry.

And there's more (at the link)

[Vigilanteman]

Describing the the Westboro Baptist Church as a Christian fundamentalist group does a disservice to Baptists, Christians and fundamentalists.

[brooklyn dave]

This is the same bunch of nutters that goes around saying “God hates fags”. Even if these crack pots are not for gays in the military, what does this have to do with our fallen soldiers-—who do not have anything to do with that policy (either way). Mr. Snyder don’t hand over a dime to these a-holes.

[freekitty]

What a brave man this Dad is.

[Talisker]

Summers argues that his client’s right to peaceful assembly and freedom of religion were infringed by the protests and that, unlike at a public park where people are free to express themselves, a funeral setting draws a “captive audience” that requires attendees to be in a particular location – they can’t simply walk away.

Seems that the legal argument is excellent. I can't see how the Circuit Court ruled that general free speech rights trumped this - unless you throw that whole liberal court thing into the mix...

[Redleg Duke]

Note how they hide behind children and women?

[KarenMarie]

I was reading on facebook... some of the lefty windbags are trying to tie this group in with the tea party ppl. Saying they ‘marched faithfully’ with the tea parties’ and there was tea party stuff all over the WBC website. Of course when called out for it... they claimed it was all taken down.

It is ridiculous but the left grabs on to it and spreads it around then the lazy and ignorant just accept it without looking further.

[chris37]

I would rather be drawn and quartered then burned for three days over a pile of hot coals than obey this POS “judge”.

[InvisibleChurch]

ttt

[Non-Sequitur]

He’s getting all sorts of offers from people wanting to help pay the expenses. What they should to is put that money in escrow and make it clear that they’ll pay the fees if the Supreme Court upholds the lower court ruling. If they pay the money to the Phelps mob now, and if the Supreme Court overturns the appeal court and reinstates the original decision, then fat chance on ever getting that money back from the Phelps’.