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Title: Judge Overturns Nebraska Ban On Flag Mutilation, Siding With Westboro Church's Right To Protest Military Funerals
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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: 1471
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.

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#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.

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#28. To: randge, PaulCJ (#5) (Edited)

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.

And for what it's worth, it has not been demonstrated to my satisfaction that G_D (YHWH Q. JEHOVAH) is an angry, vengeful homophobe who would punish America by allowing the deaths of our sons and daughters. I believe that Fred Phelps has pressed The Lord's good name into service for the benefit of Fred Phelps. I mean the sheer arrogance of asserting that HE KNOWS who is killed by God and why leads me to believe that Fred needs to double his dosage....

These deaths are unavoidable as our troops serve in The Allied Petroleum Expeditionary Forces and the Poppy Protection Police, both profitable to the shadow elite.

And, Hell, los lizardos ain't gonna risk their sons' or daughters' lives on those deux deux patrols.

Even if homoism became a capital crime the deaths from ill conceived wars would continue, and Fred would no doubt claim that as long as one "dirty queer is taking horny sailors back from a MED cruise into alleys" we can expect no quarter from G_D.

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