Big argument in our U.S. Supreme Court today. This matter charges the black robed 9 with the difficult question of whether a lower court verdict of 5 million dollars for intentional infliction of emotional distress should be reinstated against the kooks and religio-whack jobs at Westboro "Church." The members of this organization picketed the funeral of Marine Lance Corporal,Matthew Snyder with signs like the ones pictured above. Certainly our 1st Amendment rights are of extreme importance. But what of the rights of the Family to bury their son in peace and free from harassment? Justice Ginsburg frames the issue as whether Freedom of Speech rights must tolerate "exploiting this bereaved family."As for the "protestors"...I cannot fathom how they rationalize their behaviour as Christian...they take the position that our soldiers killed in the Mid-East theatre are dead because of Divine retribution for our Country's myriad sins and wickedness; like tolerating homosexuals and abortion. This distraught father wanted to bury his son and he had to deal with these jack-asses....part of me wishes the local police had taken a fire hose to these misguided, pseudo Christian , publicity hungry swine when they showed up to picket the somber occassion of the bureal of a fallen soldier.
From a profesional perspective, I am very interested in how our High Court reasons their way thru this mine field of a case.
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