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nutmeg · Post by **nutmeg** » November 1, 2007 4:58 pm

- Members of a fundamentalist Kansas church ordered to pay nearly $11 million in damages to a grieving father smiled as they walked out of the courtroom, vowing that the verdict would not deter them from protesting at military funerals.

Members promised to picket future funerals with placards bearing such slogans as "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags."

"Absolutely, don't you understand this was an act in futility?" said Shirley Phelps-Roper, whose father founded the Westboro Baptist Church.

The group believes that U.S. deaths in the Iraq war are punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. They say they are entitled to protest at funerals under the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech and religion.

These people have been to quite a few Michigan funerals.

cocotel · Post by **cocotel** » November 1, 2007 5:03 pm

They will reap what they are sowing.
It may not be the way we would like for it to happen but in time they will have their true day "in court"

spartan1979 · Post by **spartan1979** » November 1, 2007 5:07 pm

I have mixed feelings about this. I am appalled but what they did. Under no circumstances is what they did was right. There's a place in Hell for people like that.

OTOH, I hate to see our First Amendment rights further eroded.

nutmeg · Post by **nutmeg** » November 1, 2007 5:12 pm

Sorry, there is another thread posted on this. I didn't see it when I posted mine. See Elrod's thread re same topic.