Does this make you happy, too?

[jenbengen]

It sure makes ME smile.
Hope this story hasn't been posted yet...

FOXNews.com - Jury Awards Father Nearly $11 Million in Funeral Protesters Case - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

 

[buddscreek]

 

[Radiant1]

Good for Albert Snyder for fighting back, and good for the Maryland jury who laid it heavily on those group members hiding behind the 1st ammendment.

 

[Toxick]

Well that's pretty much the best news I've heard all week.

How utterly magnificent! I hope this sets a precident and I hope that everyone who has to suffer for their ignorance makes them pay. Maybe after a few of these, it will put an end to these people's rampage.

Don't get me wrong - I fully support their right to be hateful, spiteful nasty ignoramouses - but they do not have the right to invade someone's funeral and provoke a mourning family. Let them be nasty, hateful, spiteful, vile ignoramouses where they're not hurting anyone.




If not, I think it should be legal to throw hammers at Phelps and his merry band of asswipes.

 

[vbailey]

I do not believe that having a "Protest" is the Godly way of proving any point. My heart breaks for these people that had to endure that during their time of greving a lost loved one. I hope the out come will send a message that you can not just go around "Protesting" your point of view any place or time you want too, and those that are truley "God's People" I believe would never do such a thing.

 

[JPC sr]

Mr. Ferrari

It sure makes ME smile.
Hope this story hasn't been posted yet...

FOXNews.com - Jury Awards Father Nearly $11 Million in Funeral Protesters Case - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

Well I do not agree at all.

I say the Court has made an unConstitutional decision.

Not just the right of free speach, but more-so the right to free expression of religion.

There are similar events where other funerals are protested but only this one gets sanctioned because of its religious stand.

I expect a higher Court will over-rule the decision as unConstitutional, and rightly so.

 

[Radiant1]

I fully support their right to be hateful, spiteful nasty ignoramouses - but they do not have the right to invade someone's funeral and provoke a mourning family. Let them be nasty, hateful, spiteful, vile ignoramouses where they're not hurting anyone.

There's a time and place for their protest and a soldier's funeral isn't it.

 

[hammishsqueak]

Well I do not agree at all.

I say the Court has made an unConstitutional decision.

Not just the right of free speach, but more-so the right to free expression of religion.

There are similar events where other funerals are protested but only this one gets sanctioned because of its religious stand.

I expect a higher Court will over-rule the decision as unConstitutional, and rightly so.

I understand what you're saying, but I feel as if those who are holding the funeral have their freedom of speech/expression, too. They are expressing their respect for the dead and their sorrow and should be allowed to do so without having others antagonizing them. But, you're right, they're probably going to fight it....

 

[Gwydion]

I think the family should get the constitutional right to beat the living #### outta them.

 

[FemmePrincess]

What kind of "christians" would disrespect a family at such a horrible time
in their lives? Nothing worse in the world than a death of your child.
Glad they won, but nothing will take away the pain that poor family
must have felt during the funeral of their beloved son!

 

[JPC sr]

Mr. Ferrari

I understand what you're saying, but I feel as if those who are holding the funeral have their freedom of speech/expression, too. They are expressing their respect for the dead and their sorrow and should be allowed to do so without having others antagonizing them. But, you're right, they're probably going to fight it....

The family did have the funeral and they did get to express their free speach and they had their funeral.

But that family wants their neighbors and everybody in town to join then in their funeral expression without any disagreement or protest from anyone else and that is going too far.

When a person of the KKK gets buried then they have a protest, or a convicted criminal's funeral, or even the funeral of a President or a King or Saddam Hussein or other.

A funeral given by a family in a public setting is a public event and subject to protest.

 

[Rienell]

I do not believe that having a "Protest" is the Godly way of proving any point. .... and those that are truley "God's People" I believe would never do such a thing.

You hit the nail on the head. Always a couple of crazies (in any organization, military, gov., police, schools, etc..) that make the rest look bad. And unfortunately, people have the tendancy to cast judgement on all for the actions of one/few.

Shame on them.. and worse, shame on their Biblically ignorant pastor for instilling such hatred, anger and hostility.

I fully support their right to be hateful, spiteful nasty ignoramouses - but they do not have the right to invade someone's funeral and provoke a mourning family. Let them be nasty, hateful, spiteful, vile ignoramouses where they're not hurting anyone.

Exactly.. just because you have a right to do something, doesn't mean you should.

 

[belvak]

Good for Albert Snyder for fighting back, and good for the Maryland jury who laid it heavily on those group members hiding behind the 1st ammendment.

Common courtesy should prevail regardless of the rights of persons to demonstrate. I'm sure none of the members of that church would want a protest going on at one of their family member's funerals. This quote from the article is what really gets me...

The defense said it planned to appeal and one of the church's leaders, Shirley Phelps-Roper, said the members would continue their pickets of military funerals. Church members believe that U.S. deaths in the war in Iraq are punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.​

They're protesting because the nation is too tolerant of homosexuality? And this is causing the deaths of U.S. soldiers? But being azzes at a funeral is okay? That's just a little too out there for me.

 

[Toxick]

Well I do not agree at all.

I say the Court has made an unConstitutional decision.

Not just the right of free speach, but more-so the right to free expression of religion.

Nobody's infringing on their rights to free speach. They're simply being held accountable for the damage they're causing by bullying their way into private ceremonies where they're not welcome. I even said a few posts ago that they should definitely have the right to be as nasty and hateful as they want to be. They do not, however, have the right to infringe on anyone elses rights and freedoms... which is what they do.

Freedom of speech is NOT freedom from consequences.

I hope they're sued into oblivion and never heard from again.

I expect a higher Court will over-rule the decision as unConstitutional, and rightly so.

Yeah, well - we'll see about that. I hope it goes to the Supreme Court.

 

[PsyOps]

Well I do not agree at all.

I say the Court has made an unConstitutional decision.

Not just the right of free speach, but more-so the right to free expression of religion.

There are similar events where other funerals are protested but only this one gets sanctioned because of its religious stand.

I expect a higher Court will over-rule the decision as unConstitutional, and rightly so.

It sickens me that your belief that one’s right to free speech and expressions should be allowed to trample on another’s right to privacy and expression. Oh, you didn’t realize that a funeral is also a form of religious expression? That’s not surprising. The line must be (and it has been) drawn in the sand that separates the norm from fanaticism. There is no absolute right to anything. There are limits. Those limits begin with a basic respect for each other and when that level of respect has been diminished to the point of infringing on someone’s right to hold a peaceful AND PRIVATE ceremony they (the Westboro Church) have violated this brave soldier’s right to an honorable and peaceful funeral.

You far left wing kooks feel it’s your right to express your free speech while, in the course of exercising that right, violate another’s right to exercise their right to free speech. It’s a twisted and backwards mentality that must come to an end. You feel your cause so superior that it supersedes anyone else’s right to their cause. You’d abuse the Constitution as a tool to shut everyone else up that you disagree with. While you are exercising your right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness you feel it is equally your right to trample on everyone else’s same rights. Nothing can be more arrogant and intolerable. This court decision finally says enough is enough with you disrespectful and intolerant bunch. Amen to common sense for once in our courts.

 

[jenbengen]

You hit the nail on the head. Always a couple of crazies (in any organization, military, gov., police, schools, etc..) that make the rest look bad. And unfortunately, people have the tendancy to cast judgement on all for the actions of one/few.

Shame on them.. and worse, shame on their Biblically ignorant pastor for instilling such hatred, anger and hostility.


Exactly.. just because you have a right to do something, doesn't mean you should.

I think it is just a bunch of crazy people hiding behind some fake religion to excuse their hateful behavior in public.

I respect people's rights to worship/not worship whoever they wish to. But this was WAY over the line in my opinion.

 

[Toxick]

But that family wants their neighbors and everybody in town to join then in their funeral expression without any disagreement or protest from anyone else and that is going too far.

Then let them disagree and protest somewhere else. Somewhere they're not hurting anyone.

That's all I'm saying.

A funeral given by a family in a public setting is a public event and subject to protest.

A burial plot is not a "public setting".

If you can't get privacy at your own grave, then they should make it legal to bury your family in the back yard where you can legally shoot people dead who show up with signs.

 

[Plan B]

Well I do not agree at all.

There are similar events where other funerals are protested but only this one gets sanctioned because of its religious stand.

I expect a higher Court will over-rule the decision as unConstitutional, and rightly so.

 

[PsyOps]

When a person of the KKK gets buried then they have a protest, or a convicted criminal's funeral, or even the funeral of a President or a King or Saddam Hussein or other.

You're comparing one of our great heroes of this country to a member of the KKK or Saddam Hussein? HOW DARE YOU! Your rhetoric is a disgrace. Your level of comprehension of what defines greatness and what defines the deplorable is obscured by your struggle to accept anything normal, you are not capable of understanding what it means to hold a level of common respect for one another.

 

[godsbutterfly]

What kind of "christians" would disrespect a family at such a horrible time
in their lives? Nothing worse in the world than a death of your child.
Glad they won, but nothing will take away the pain that poor family
must have felt during the funeral of their beloved son!

I agree with you completely! That's so disrespectful it is sickening. I don't even like it when the media is in the face of the family of somebody famous at a funeral much less for people to do have a blatant protest like this and say they are doing it in the name of Christ.