Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, 20-year-old Marine, was killed in a Humvee accident in 2006 while deployed in Iraq.
Albert Snyder, the father of the dead Marine, won an $11 million verdict against the Westboro Baptist Church for intentional infliction of emotional distress, while picketing his son's funeral. A judge reduced the award to $5 million to avoid getting the reward thrown out altogether because of First Amendment Rights? Are you freaking serious? First Amendment Rights? Picketing a soldier's funeral with hostile and ass-crap signs like "Thank God for Dead Soldiers", "You're Going to Hell", "God Hates You" and "God Hates the USA" is not exercising the First Amendments Rights/freedom of speech, that's manipulating constitutional rights and the Bible and exercising sheer stupidity and disrespect. Lawyers or any other legal advocates of the Westboro's actions being First Amendment privilidges, ought to be disbarred for even suggesting such nonsense. Picketing in a general area is one thing but at someone's funeral and at a soldier's funeral who just honorably served and gave his/her life for this country ought to be a crime. These people have taken God's words and mission and turned it into something evil and sick. Something needs to be done to stop these people from picketing military funerals. It seems more like terrorism than exercising freedom of speech. These people give a bad rep to Americans & Christians, and I say that as a Christian and as a retired American Soldier. Check out the stupidity below:
