At a fallen soliders funeral in 2006 a group of protestors, who were protesting the war, came to his funeral and started shouting obscene things and violating the private rights of the family that was holding the funeral in honor of their son. The family sued the church that the group of protestors, in that settlement they gain little more than 5 million dollars in damages. But in recent events, the court overturned that ruling stating that it was against first amendment rights to have the protestors pay the money, now the family of the discesed has to pay back those damages to the church. So instead of shutting down those types of protests, they are now going to be funding them.
I think that this is one of the most ridiculous things to ever happen to the American legal system. Why in the world would any judge or jury for that matter decide that the right thing to do would be to go and fund people who are against the very soliders who fight to keep them and their country free. Sure, its against the first amendment to stop freedom of speech, but to go and intrude into someones final reception and burial is just morally wrong in my book. Let them and their family have their peace, and allow them to have their closure. Those people think that it's a sin to go to war, and that its God's way of punishing the United States for homosexuality is by events such as soliders' deaths. But what would happen if one of their own church members became a homosexual, yet they just didn't know it? That has me wondering. I believe that in the United States people can be whatever they want to be, as long as they aren't hurting anyone, or breaking the law they are fine.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/30/westboro.baptist.snyder/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29
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