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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: 1485
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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#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.

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#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.

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