Westboro Baptist Church

[missourimary]

Originally Posted by missourimary

They have freedom of speech. They can say whatever they want in their church, on the streets, in front of Walmart... Why don't they go picket at a gay pride parade or picket homosexuals' funerals or AIDS clinics, if that's what they're really against? Why not go down to Mardi Gras or to the middle of Los Angeles?

Those aren't the places they go. They look for the funerals that are most likely to get media attention. They're capitalizing on others' grief and misfortune, and that's wrong.

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

Is there a public street by church where funeral will be? I'm sure that's why they did the emergency law. In front of walmart and front of church where funderal will be is all public property.

Some people are so afraid that their rights will be diminished that they freely relinquish both those rights and the principles behind them.

Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event. ~Samuel Adams
Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one -- at least no one other than the participants -- is harmed by it. ~Hugo Adam Bedau