I would love to meet these people in person

[SeaCat]

Oh yeah I would love to meet these twirps in person.

It's amazing people haven't become angry enough to derail them.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/30/westboro.baptist.snyder/index.html?hpt=T2

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

They live in Kansas. Some modifications to the church lightning rod should be in order . . .

 

[Guest]

Oh yeah I would love to meet these twirps in person.

It's amazing people haven't become angry enough to derail them.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/30/westboro.baptist.snyder/index.html?hpt=T2

Cat

Donate if you can.

http://www.matthewsnyder.org/help.html

 

[stephen55]

Living in Canada, I will never have to put up with the antics of the Westboro Church. I suppose they could try to picket the funeral of a Canadian soldier, but I have a pretty good idea what attending members of Canada's military would do about it.

I can't imagine what the father of that fallen Marine is thinking after the court said that those reptiles are free to do what they do and that he has to pay their legal costs ($16,000).

And for the Westboro lawyer, daughter of the head reptile, to say that the money will finance more demonstrations....she's too low to kick and too slimy to step on.

the circuit court opinion said. "Although reasonable people may disagree about the appropriateness of the Phelps' protest, this conduct simply does not satisfy the heavy burden required for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress under Maryland law."

Just what does satisfy the burden? Obviously not this...

Members of the fundamentalist church based in Topeka, Kansas, appeared outside Snyder's funeral in 2006 in Westminster, Maryland, carrying signs reading "You're going to hell," "God hates you" and "Thank God for dead soldiers."

Perhaps the state of Maryland should take a close look at it's own law.

I see that the Supreme Court is going to have a look.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case to address issues of laws designed to protect the "sanctity and dignity of memorial and funeral services" as well as the privacy of family and friends of the deceased.

The justices will be asked to address how far states and private entities such as cemeteries and churches can go to justify picket-free zones and the use of "floating buffers" to silence or restrict speech or movements of demonstrators exercising their constitutional rights in a funeral setting.

Given the Supreme Court's very narrow (call it basically non-existent) rulings on what restrictions can be put on free speech (cross burnings on the lawn of an African-American family are not excluded), I fear that the Westboro Church will be able to carry on.

That Supreme Court ruling on cross burning...?

In R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, 505 U.S. 377 (1992), the Court considered the constitutionality of a St. Paul, Minn., ordinance that prohibited fighting words on the "basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender." The defendant was one of several teen-agers to be charged with violating the ordinance after burning a cross on an African-American family's lawn. The Supreme Court determined that the ordinance was facially unconstitutional because it prohibited speech on the basis of its content.

http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=13718

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Like I said, that lightning rod needs adjustment before the spring thunderstorms begin . . .

 

[rgraham666]

Bill O'Reilly has picked up the Snyder's legal costs.

Good for him.

 

[bronzeage]

We discussed this group in a thread a week ago. A few people think violence is the solution.

What they do is legal and protected by law. Beating them up, would not be.

I can understand why people are upset by the Westboro sect, but it is amusing to watch homophobes squirm when they see the signs.

 

[3113]

Here is what one school did against them when they came to protest the school.

 

[Handley_Page]

What I cannot understand is WHY these extremists use such terrible signs; that and hiding behind "free speech."

Perhaps what is needed is a local ordnance like we have in the UK:
"Conduct likely to cause a breach of the peace".

 

[Smarmy_and_Sappe]

Living in Canada, I will never have to put up with the antics of the Westboro Church. I suppose they could try to picket the funeral of a Canadian soldier, but I have a pretty good idea what attending members of Canada's military would do about it.

I think they did try a year or two ago to cross into Canada, but were turned away at the border...