Category: Westboro Baptist Church

Missouri’s tight restrictions on protests and picketing outside military funerals were tossed out by a federal judge Monday, over free speech concerns.

A small Kansas church had brought suit over its claimed right to loudly march outside the burials and memorial services of those killed in overseas conflicts. The state legislature had passed a law to keep members of the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church from demonstrating within 300 feet of such private services.

The ‘Westboro Baptist Church‘ — a hate group that masquerades as a Christian church — has filed their response with the U.S. Supreme Court to a petition by Albert Snyder asking the court to restore a $5 million verdict against the Rev. Fred Phelps and members of his congregation.

The Supreme Court is considering whether vitriolic anti-gay protestors who picket the funerals of US soldiers are protected by free speech laws. As far as we know only Phelps and his cult members regularly demonstrate at military funerals (and other events), carrying inflammatory signs to draw attention to their anti-gay and anti-USA message.