>>>http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/02/scotus.westboro.church/index.html?hpt=C1
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>>>The courts don't have the common decency or enough balls to do what is right.
>>>
>>>I predict some well deserved fatalities on the Westboro side shortly.
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>>FWIW, while I detest Westboro's behavior, I think the court ruled correctly in this case. It's not free speech unless we protect the right to say things we hate.
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>So if KKK a-holes decided to hang out at the doorway of a different black church in the south each sunday during services chanting "DIE nigger nigger nigger", that's OK?

If they're on a public sidewalk, and they're not carrying weapons (thus suggesting they mean to actually do something other than chant), yep.

When neo-Nazis decided to hold a march in my town, I was part of the group that chose to have a multi-cultural celebration event elsewhere at the same time, rather than a confrontation counter-protest. (FWIW, when they couldn't get the desired reaction, the neo-Nazis decided not to come after all.)

Tamar