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Anti-gay church wins round in court
Protest outside Marine's funeral called protected speech
By Nicole Fuller | nicole.fuller@baltsun.com
September 25, 2009
A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a fundamentalist Kansas church's protest outside the funeral of a Westminster Marine killed in Iraq is protected speech and did not violate the privacy of the service member's family, reversing a lower court's $5 million award.
The ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., held that the signs and writings of the Westboro Baptist Church, which included anti-gay and anti-military messages, are protected by the First Amendment. The Topeka-based congregation has protested at military funerals across the country
"Notwithstanding the distasteful and repugnant nature of the words being challenged in these proceedings, we are constrained to conclude that the defendants' signs and [what it has on its Web sites] are constitutionally protected," Circuit Court Judge Robert B. King wrote in the majority opinion.
Full Article (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/bal-md.westboro25sep25,0,4885648.story)
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The First Amendment does NOT give the right to trample on someone else's right, like a funeral. Let's hope the whackos at WBC lose and have to cough up that money. Fred Phelps and inbred freaks should be out of the gene pool.
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Is it just me, or are they getting less coverage for their protests since January of this year?
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These people are jackasses and they will answer for their misuse of the name of Christ in the next life, but they have every right to spread their filth. The First Amendment protects even their speech.
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These people are jackasses and they will answer for their misuse of the name of Christ in the next life, but they have every right to spread their filth. The First Amendment protects even their speech.
Why don't the DUmmies and other gay rights groups ever counter protest this group? Could it be they are a leftist false-flag operation? The only group that I've heard of counter protesting them or trying to block them is the Patriot Riders.
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Is it just me, or are they getting less coverage for their protests since January of this year?
They are more anti-Semitic as of right now.
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Why don't the DUmmies and other gay rights groups ever counter protest this group? Could it be they are a leftist false-flag operation? The only group that I've heard of counter protesting them or trying to block them is the Patriot Riders.
Fred Phelps had ties with Al Gore and he is a Democrat. He is also anti-American like Noam Chomsky and Jeremiah Wright and I think he is a leftist. I am telling you, two peas from the same pod. I bet he has illegitimate children himself because his daughter Shirley has an illegitimate son named Samuel Phelps-Roper.
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Why don't the DUmmies and other gay rights groups ever counter protest this group? Could it be they are a leftist false-flag operation? The only group that I've heard of counter protesting them or trying to block them is the Patriot Riders.
These guys thrive on reactions. They piss people off and then sue them when the inevitable punching ensues. It's literally how they make their living.
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These people are jackasses and they will answer for their misuse of the name of Christ in the next life, but they have every right to spread their filth. The First Amendment protects even their speech.
These people need a good does of reality and sooner rather than later
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These people need a good does of reality and sooner rather than later
They are no better than Jim Jones/People's Temple and Charles Manson.
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These people are jackasses and they will answer for their misuse of the name of Christ in the next life, but they have every right to spread their filth. The First Amendment protects even their speech.
Is it just me or is this wacko freind of Al Gore church the only church that seems to get freindly attention from courts and ACLU and such?
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Is it just me or is this wacko freind of Al Gore church the only church that seems to get freindly attention from courts and ACLU and such?
Yes, I noticed that too. I bet the WBC is funded by George Soros like the ACLU is.