http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5192571
What about the stupid hateful insensitive protestors? Can I just kill him a little bit?
Link to Phelps' gloating over the deaths of more WVa miners.
link to story below
Quote:
Funeral Protests
Posted 1/31/2006 06:25 PM
Protest at W.Va. mine disaster memorial prompts legislation
Story by The Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia lawmakers are taking steps to pass a law that would restrict protests outside of funerals or memorial services. The legislation is in response to a Kansas-based group's decision to demostrate against homosexuality outside a January 15th memorial for the 12 Sago Mine victims. The protest group is largely the extended family of Topeka, Kansas, minister Fred Phelps and sees the miners' deaths as a sign of God punishing America for tolerating gays. It has applied the
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same logic when U-S troops are killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill (HB4306), which was introduced today, would keep such pickets 500 feet from a funeral or memorial service. The Kansas group had threatened to protest this past weekend outside the funerals of two miners killed at Logan County's Alma Number One Mine, but did not show up. The group's protests at soldiers' funerals have legislators in at least seven other states considering measures similar to those proposed in West Virginia. Phelps' group did not respond to a request for comment.
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And of course,
FauxNews reports that this is the anti-war left disrespecting our brave soldiers. Idiot.
I don't agree with the restriction on free speech this and many other laws in the making would represent. But just because you have the right to free speech, doesn't mean you're unencumbered by the responsibility to use it without consideration to others. Sow hate, reap violence.