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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
Exercising your rights cannot violate the rights of another person. In this case, exercising your right to free speech would violate the right of life (Not to be injured or abused) of everyone who is in the theater or airport.
I have to agree with Chesapeake Bill. The people from WBC are disgusting, vile "human beings". However, this judgment was the correct interpretation of their Constitutional right to protest.
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I don't particularly like it, but I have to agree. Unfortunately in this case, free speech is not limited to "inoffensive" speech.
These jerks are not protesting the war, as someone posted. They are protesting the fact that our nation does not persecute homosexuals. Somehow, they have concluded that God is killing these servicemen in retaliation for the fact that we don't persecute homosexuals. Don't ask me to explain in, I'm just repeating it.
I don't think much needs to be said about their actions.
Someone compared this to a Klan rally. But it's different. Because if the Klan hold a rally, say, at a town park, you can choose to stay away from that park if you are offended. The families in this case do not have that choice. They have to be at that cemetary, at that particular time.
It says a lot about our tolerance, I think, that these people have not yet been beaten to a pulp.
And when the leader of this church dies, I hope the defense department sponsors a circus across the street from his funeral.
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