Today the U.S. Surpreme Court rejected a law making videos with violence against animals illegal. It wa an 8-1 ruling. They're going to consider one that makes it illegal for folks like "Reverend" Fred Phelps show up at military funerals to protest gays. That's the case in which the father of the deceased student went to court against Phelps and lost. He was then ordered to pay the Phelp's $16-Thousand legal fees. Needless to say, there are lots of donations headed the Father's way to make sure he doesn't have to pay a cent.
And a couple of times a year there's a story about college students trying to clear their campuses of a college paper becuase of an article they despise.
A dangerous place, but it's the cost of freedom. When you muzzle Phelps and company, you muzzle us all.
Yeah... freedom sucks and blows giant gnarly chunks, doesn't it? *LOL*
ReplyDeleteYa' know... when you get to thinking about it, the whole idea of our freedom is - by world standards - a phenomenally LIBERAL idea.
So, what we really have are the liberal liberals and the conservative liberals barking at each other.
About Fred Phelps and his picketing cemeteries--
ReplyDeleteMany cemeteries are private property. The cemetery management has the right to make rules.
Also, there's "the right to peaceably assemble."