[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help] 

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Arctic Sea Ice Soars to Highest Level for 21 Years

Tucker Carlson Reveals He Was Clawed By a Demon While Sleeping, Even Started to Bleed

Top Kamala Harris Surrogate Mark Cuban Faces Intense Backlash From #WomenForTrump

Kamala Harris Is Insane & Cannot Be Trusted

Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire Possible Within 'Days': Lebanese PM

‘We were totally betrayed’ – 500 migrants for tiny German village of 600 will nearly double population

Hezbollah tactics, weapons stall Israeli advance

President Kennedy's Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly

RFK Jr. Explains Plan For Reforming The CIA

Harris Campaign Recruits Foreign Volunteers, Tells Noncitizens How To Skirt Donation Rules

Lame Yuck! With Nothing To Lose, Biden Goes On Baby-Mouthing Spree At White House Halloween Party

The Fastest Way To Reverse A Fatty Liver Naturally | Dr. William Li

CIA Advisor Warns: This is the beginning of the 2025 Civil War

When Evil Is Allowed In, Evil Stays

US layoffs rose 42% in three years, reaching 1.83M in September.

Iran Will Carry Out 'Definitive, Painful' Retaliatory Strike, Likely Before Election: CNN

How 2024 Election Will Lead To Second Civil War

Tulsi Gabbard Drops a Killer Trump Ad

Israel Genocide Tracker Account Sparks 'Panic' Among Israeli Soldiers

Battleground Voting Shift: Hispanic Voters Now Driven by Issues, Not Party Lines

North Carolina Appeals Court Rules to Allow Voters Who have Never Lived in the U.S. To Vote in State Elections

The 5 Tiers of Stolen Elections (Dems already did 1 & 2)

A Palestinian Family Goes to Pick Up Olives. It Ends in an Execution by Israeli Soldiers

Israel Suffers A Multimillion Dollar Economic SUCKER PUNCH!

The Babylon Bee Endorses Communist Harris

Nosy NY Times Journos Uncover Elon Musk's Secret Luxury Compound In Austin

A 20% surge in gov't spending inflates the national debt, inflation, and interest rates, now reaching 10% of GDP

MI EARLY VOTE SHOCKER! An Excess of 125,428 Votes Cast!

DMSO is the ivermectin for strokes and neurological damage

The Curious Case Of Ariane Tabatabai


Religion
See other Religion Articles

Title: Judge Overturns Nebraska Ban On Flag Mutilation, Siding With Westboro Church's Right To Protest Military Funerals
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/ ... tilation-lawsuit_n_704305.html
Published: Sep 3, 2010
Author: TIMBERLY ROSS
Post Date: 2010-09-03 10:57:03 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 651
Comments: 41

OMAHA, Neb. — A federal judge overturned Nebraska's ban on flag mutilation Thursday, clearing the way for Kansas church protesters to continue trampling on the U.S. flag when they protest at military funerals.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf said the law can't be applied as long as Megan Phelps-Roper and fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church "otherwise act peacefully while desecrating the American or Nebraska flag during their religiously motivated protests."

It was unclear whether the ruling applied only to the church members or to everyone in Nebraska. An earlier temporary block of the law applied only to Phelps-Roper.

The judge declined to explain the intent of his ruling when reached by The Associated Press.

A message left Thursday with the Nebraska attorney general's office wasn't immediately returned.

Attorney General Jon Bruning has previously said the flag-protection law passed in 1977 is not consistent with later U.S. Supreme Court rulings that labeled flag desecration a form of protected speech.

Bruning has said he wouldn't fight to save the Nebraska law. If he chooses not to appeal, Kopf's decision would close the case.

Members of the Topeka, Kan., church protest at soldier funerals around the country because they believe U.S. troop deaths are punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality. Group members often trample on the U.S. flag, wear it and display it upside-down as part of their protests.

In July, Phelps-Roper filed the federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Nebraska's flag law, saying it infringed on her right to free speech. The law barred intentionally "casting contempt or ridicule" upon a U.S. or Nebraska flag by mutilating, defacing or burning it or by trampling on it.

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  


TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest

Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 18.

#2. To: Ada (#0)

Harassing those whom are grieving is not just evil, it is dangerously stupid to do.

PaulCJ  posted on  2010-09-03   11:13:26 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: PaulCJ (#2)

Harassing those whom are grieving is not just evil, it is dangerously stupid to do.

Yes, I strongly agree with you. What these church members are doing at funerals is highly offensive and inflammatory. I wonder, as I often do about the many abnormal phenomena occurring these days, what or who is behind this behavior.

Although I believe that the wars we are now engaged in are in fact criminal enterprises, I think that the soldiers that fight and die in them are in a sense victims too. Their surviving family members certainly are, and it is the height of arrogance that few things but religion can drive people to, to subject them to this sort of humiliation and pain.

The congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church are sick individuals. Increasingly, I find, this entire country is being led and populated by the clinically insane.

randge  posted on  2010-09-03   11:47:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: randge (#5)

deleted

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-09-03   12:16:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Eric Stratton (#6)

sometimes the truth is a bitter pill. obama/ mccain are fag loving baby killers, & this is indeed a wicked nation. the murderous 'troops' waging these undeclared wars are far from heroes. they are facilitators. its refreshing that these americans have the sense to say it. truth hurts.

Artisan  posted on  2010-09-03   12:25:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Artisan (#8) (Edited)

deleted

Eric Stratton  posted on  2010-09-03   12:29:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Eric Stratton (#9)

as i said above, the law that congress passed in specific opposition to this phelps church is unmeasurably worse than anything this group has said or done. i support their rights. i suggest you spend 10 minutes actually listening to them like i did, and the knee jerk reaction to them will change. then tell me what they said which you disagree with. i am betting it will be zero. i'm not even baptist or protestant but these folks made perfect sense.

Artisan  posted on  2010-09-03   12:39:46 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Artisan (#11) (Edited)

I dont know wtf is going on with this board, but it cut off part of my reply. Here is the rest of it.

IMO they are not facilitators. They are not "indirect or unobtrusive". They are murderers, and it looks like they have great fun in murdering people. I'd say that they share direct responsibility with those that chose this war. And it was a war of choice.

And as part of the judgment due to this curse, I hope none of them to return home alive. With them dead, the world will be a better place. And with them alive, here, they'll murder us for fun too. All someone has to do is say "shoot". And like the mindless little robots they are, they'll shoot.

.

PSUSA  posted on  2010-09-03   13:06:42 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: PSUSA, Pinguinite (#14)

I dont know wtf is going on with this board, but it cut off part of my reply

Neil, can you see what's going on here?

christine  posted on  2010-09-03   13:47:36 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


Replies to Comment # 18.

#23. To: christine, Pinguinite (#18)

Its minor. It cut it off after I copied/pasted a definition. Maybe I pasted something that messed it up.

PSUSA  posted on  2010-09-03 14:11:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: christine, PSUSA (#18)

From the logs, I can't tell for sure (not enough info) but it appears that only about 2 seconds went by between the the preview and the posting of the comment. Perhaps it's possible that the page didn't fully load after the preview? If it didn't then a cut off post may be the result.

So after previewing it's important to let the page fully load before clicking the post button.

It's a guess, but the only one I have at the moment.

Pinguinite  posted on  2010-09-03 19:17:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


End Trace Mode for Comment # 18.

TopPage UpFull ThreadPage DownBottom/Latest


[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]