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Posted on 06-03-10 01:57:41 AM (last edited by FieryIce at 06-02-10 11:04 PM) Link | Quote
For those wondering, the remaining two states were Virginia and Maine...

http://prop8trialtracker.com/2010/06/02/48-states-join-westboro-suit/
http://tribwekchron.com/2010/06/brown-signs-supreme-court-brief-to-stop-an-anti-gay-hate-group-from-disrupting-military-funerals/

Fred Phelps’ band of attention hungry LGBT loathing Westboro Baptist Church got it in their heads that American soldiers were dying in Iraq because gay people exist, or something equally loathsome. They got in the habit of protesting military funerals, including Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s funeral, who at age 20 was killed in Iraq. His father Albert Snyder sued the Westboro Baptist Church for emotional distress caused by the protesters.

Now 48 states have joined the lawsuit, which of course is centered around First Amendment concerns. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case. AP via Joe Sudbay.

Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have submitted a brief to the Supreme Court in support of a father who sued anti-gay protesters over their demonstration at the 2006 funeral of his son, a Marine killed in Iraq.

Only Virginia and Maine declined to sign the brief by the Kansas attorney general.

Joe points out that Virginia’s AG is a right-wing nut and it is unclear why Maine declined to join the case.
There is nothing Westboro loves more than attention, no matter how negative, so I’m sure they are tickled pink with this news. Now if only the Supreme Court will let them be stuck with a massive amount of damages and put them out of business.


Will karma finally catch up to Phelps and his nutjobs? For those that don't know, the Westboro Baptist Church is a cult filled with nutjobs who are anti-gay, anti-catholic, anti-semitic, anti-Sweden, anti-Ireland, anti-America, pro-Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, you get the idea... Their leader is banned from the UK. His websites include:
godhatesfags.com
godhatessweden.com
godhatesireland.com
priestsrapeboys.com

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Posted on 06-03-10 02:27:30 AM Link | Quote
I smell a verbal beat-down in the making for those who have it coming to them.

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Sans some judges swinging for allowing organized hate speech to the extreme, I don't see this ending well for Westboro.

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Posted on 06-03-10 03:11:18 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FieryIce
For those wondering, the remaining two states were Virginia and Maine...

Fuck my state.

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Posted on 06-03-10 05:00:38 AM Link | Quote
When does it stop being free speech and turn into harassment?

I mean, I'm all for protecting one of our most sacred constitutional rights, but...jeez. I also think the line has to be drawn somewhere. There must be SOME law or loophole that can be used to take these scum-suckers down.

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Posted on 06-03-10 11:29:05 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Gunstar Green
When does it stop being free speech and turn into harassment?

I mean, I'm all for protecting one of our most sacred constitutional rights, but...jeez. I also think the line has to be drawn somewhere. There must be SOME law or loophole that can be used to take these scum-suckers down.


This is my opinion exactly. Sure, technically they are protected by the first amendment's freedom of speech guarantee but that liberty must have its limits too, the guys take their shit to the extreme, I'm sure I would be horrified if my brother would have died in a war and I'd have all those nutjobs outside the funeral..

The justices are handling a very delicate subject right now...
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Posted on 06-03-10 02:46:21 PM Link | Quote
They petitioned at a military funeral near here once

Motorcyclists came from all over the place, and ran circles around them,
revving their engines so nobody could hear what they were saying


There were police there --
to keep locals from creating a brawl with the westboro people


and it would have happened too




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Posted on 06-03-10 05:07:59 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by krutomisi
They petitioned at a military funeral near here once

Motorcyclists came from all over the place, and ran circles around them,
revving their engines so nobody could hear what they were saying


It seems those were the Patriot Guard Riders.
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Posted on 06-05-10 11:18:01 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Stigandr
Originally posted by FieryIce
For those wondering, the remaining two states were Virginia and Maine...

Fuck my state.

We've got the law already. It is illegal to willfully disrupt a funeral here. The reason why we and the state of Maine did not join in with this would be that the resulting law would be a restriction of speech based not on action, but on the content of one's speech. There is a possibility that this law might just open the door to picking and choosing of "proper" opinions and, knowing Virginia, we would never support that.

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Posted on 06-05-10 11:23:55 AM Link | Quote
It might not be legally wrong, but that doesn't mean that they really shouldn't get a boot in the ass for it.

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Posted on 06-05-10 10:29:32 PM Link | Quote
Some people find being gay obscene.

I personally find that disrupting such private affairs with "God hates ______" obscene. Obscenities are usually very limited by the first amendment, too bad it's not up to the victim as to what is considered obscene...

Still, I'd like to see what happens when somebody pickets WBC with "God doesn't exist" signs!

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The best one was when a school they protested surrounded them with 'Love, not hate' and 'We love you' signs, making their hatred look ridiculous.

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Originally posted by Metal_Man88
The best one was when a school they protested surrounded them with 'Love, not hate' and 'We love you' signs, making their hatred look ridiculous.
Ahem...



From the protest at our school (Virginia Tech). That was a pretty fun day.

Glad to see that the WBC is driving their hate train right into the ground.

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Posted on 06-06-10 02:12:06 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Sine
Glad to see that the WBC is driving their hate train right into the ground.

Good, maybe they'll end up in China...

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Posted on 06-06-10 03:21:53 AM (last edited by Bitmap at 06-06-10 12:24 AM) Link | Quote

Can't wait till one of them dies so I can protest at their funeral.

"God hates haters". Or better yet: "God hates people who hate Faggots". I am sure that will work.

And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all ... (2 Timothy 2:24).

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love (Ephesians 4:2).

Oh yeah. And here is a little something something in the bible that the WBC refuses to get in their heads. Read, and enjoy.

Num 12:6 And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

Jer 23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
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Jer 23:22 But if they had stood in my counsel, and had caused my people to hear my words, then they should have turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

Jer 26:4 And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
Jer 26:5 To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
Jer 26:6 Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Jer 35:15 I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

What say you? WBC? Oh really? That verse is not real as you have claimed on Fox news and other sources?

Fuck off.

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