Supreme Court rules in favor of Westboro protesters

If this doesn't tell you everything you need to know about how wacked these people are, I'm not sure what more you have to see.....

 

Though this court has plenty to answer for . . . in this specific instance, yes, they absolutely did.

 

"Canada is a filthy country run by fags" Awesome

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplinsky_v._New_Hampshire

Ultimately the best solution to the situation comes on the beautiful day somebody eventually buries a Louisville Slugger in their skulls.

 

A lot of you agree that the Supreme Court did the right thing here, but shouldn't there be some expectation of privacy at a funeral? I believe the SC ruled that picketing outside the homes of people (for example, anti-abortionists picketing outside the home of a doctor who performs abortions) is illegal. Shouldn't there be some expectation of privacy where we go?

 

The laws are expected to balance the expectation of privacy and the right to protest. You can't blanket ban the protests, but you can force them a certain number of feet away from the funeral. The burden is on the government to show that they are doing the minimum necessary intrusion on the right to protest in order to protect the expectation of privacy.

 

Isn't this one large inbred family? Won't the laws of genetics start to turn the tables and these people will come out retarded and deformed?

Oh wait, that's already begun to happen, never mind.

 

I've never been happier to live in a country where free speech is tempered by hate laws.

 

You can have it. Canada's lack of respect for free speech is the biggest blight on it's otherwise general aura of awesomeness.

 

Americans hold unlimited free speech in an awe I don't comprehend. Decency demands limits.

 

At one time in our country, "decency" demanded that people of opposite races couldn't marry one another.

We have since come to the conclusion that we would prefer the government stay out of the business of deciding what is "decent" and what is not. Over history, they have not proven themselves particularly adept at it, to say the least.

 

HC, all that being said, obviously you aren't singular in your thinking. For example, Europe values personal privacy above free speech.