All I can say is, "It's about stinking time." Finally, someone gets the backbone to take these people to court and kick their stinking butts across the floor. In case you're not familiar, this is the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, KS that likes to go to the funerals of dead soldiers to protest homosexuality.
Since I live in Topeka, I have to see these people all the time. It sickens me. Why KS has never really taken a stand against them, I couldn't answer. I haven't lived here all my life. I heard that Westboro handed Topeka's ass to them in a court case quite some time ago, but I don't know the details. However, here's the meat of what happened today:
A Baltimore federal jury awarded nearly $11 million Wednesday to the father of a Marine killed in Iraq, deciding that the family's privacy had been invaded by a Kansas church whose members waved anti-gay signs at the funeral.Good on ya' Maryland.
It's great that someone finally got the nerve to deal with these hate mongers! I mean, going to funerals to protest is wrong, just wrong. I think people are less apt to sue a church then they would if it were a corporation, but I tell you what, this is what they needed!!
I never did, and still don't, understand the idea of hate for the sake of religion. I mean, isn't religion supposed to be loving and supportive? Suppose that's just not how things really work.
Funny....The Phelps cult came here some 15 years or more ago, from who knows where...they get run out of other places but have been allowed to exercise their freedom of speech here in T-town, seemingly with little restrictions... Albert Snyder has probably never stepped foot in Topeka, but he is most certainly a hero for stepping up and standing up to the hatemongers of the Westboro Baptist Church and suing their asses!
I hope this is the beginning of the end of the reign of hate spewed from the Phelps and their hatchlings....