/johnny
Oh I think there is a reasonable line between setting boundaries on the 1st Amendment and limiting it. Sticking it to mourners at funerals, is certainly not what the founders had in mind. It’s a shame that the fire in a theater situation such as this even needed a law. It would have been better if local law enforcement just rounded them up at their last protest, and found that they couldn’t buy a juror that wouldn’t convict. Anywhere.
Speech should not be restricted. However there does need to be stern limit as in NIL to the civil damages awarded and no filed criminal charges filed on someone acting under extreme emotional duress. Meaning specifically where that someone punches someone who protest their deceased family members PRIVATE funeral service even in a V.A. Cemetery. If the means to file civil suit or rather the monetary reward is taken away for this the badgering nonsense will stop.
Are the Phelps family ghouls held to the same restrictions as pro-life activists? If not, we’ve got a serious violation of the equal protection clause.