States Line Up Against Funeral Hecklers in Supreme Court Brief -- ABC News
Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church Picketed Marine's Funeral; Court to Decide if Protest Was Free Speech.
Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the constitutionality of laws restricting protests at private family funerals.
Lance Cpl. Snyder, who was deployed to Iraq in 2006, was killed just a month later in an accident. His funeral in Maryland was disrupted by demonstrators led by Kansas pastor Fred W. Phelps, yelling, among other things, that America's military is evil because it defends a country that tolerates homosexuality.
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My Comment: From my perspective .... this case is a slam-dunk. But what bothers me is that the Federal Courts of Appeal have a different point of view .... hence the (now) involvement of the Supreme Court.
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