This just burns me

[pdsavage]

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And you have the right to go to the church you want and to practice the religion you want or you can just sit home on sundays and not go to church heck you can even work on sundays.

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

This is what the law is for.

Their right to say what they say is protected, but you don't have to listen to them and you can make it so that families don't have to listen to them either. The role of the local law versus the federal law is here in this space.

Local ordinances can establish rules that state no one may protest within a certain space from a funeral. A local community here inPA made it that no one can protest within 1/2 mile of a funeral or funeral procession! That does not violate freedom of speech and does allow for funerals to be held in peace. Westboro never protests without a permit - they do not believe in civil disobedience. One of the only groups whose message I despise more than Westboro's is the KKK and still I protect their speech. But, I go to their rallies and we form circles around them and turn our backs on them and engage in a dignified silent protest of what they have to say.

That is how this is supposed to work. And I am grateful for it. There are many people here on this forum who disagree with many of the things I have to say, so who decides?? If you don't like westboro (and i fervently hope you don't) then go protest their sites. Go protest their speech with your own. Or do as I do and join the Patriot Guard and stand in the rain and cold and honor your dead and honor their families.




My ehart bleeds for teh Snyder family, but their lawyer also made a serious error in not including some of what Shirley helps did..... Solely on the merits this case was decided correctly.

 

[SLWyandotte]

personally i question the intelligence of anyone that picks on the military. i'm still waiting to see on the news where an ex-army sniper with terminal cancer has taken half of them out. i was a military brat and those guys protect their own. and some aren't the most stable. throw in nothing to lose and it makes me wonder how it hasn't happened yet.

 

[chickened]

We have a government that unfortunately picks and chooses what right to protect and not protect. I guess we could look at what is happening in LIbya with the protesters and go that route.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Our constitutional rights don't mean anything if they only protect some of us when things are easy. They also have to protect people that say and do things that make you sick to the stomach as long as they follow the law. Would this type of thing be allowed in a dictatorship? Of course not, but it is in a free country.

And don't blame the Baptists for this group. By their rules, they cannot force this group to stop calling themselves Baptists. Some of the Phelps family are lawyers that study this stuff very carefully.

I've driven by that church. That is not where they protest. It is too isolated. They go to busy street corners. And a lot of the protesters are young kids. They have to teach this vile sick hatred to another generation for fear it might die out.

 

[Wynette]

Thanks for participating.