Following the ruling on Wednesday, Margie Phelps, Mr Phelps's daughter and the lawyer representing the church, told reporters that the case "put a megaphone to the mouth of this little church".
DO NOT FEED THE TROLL. These people crave attention more than anything. Every lawsuit, every time they are plastered all over CNN or anywhere else for that matter, they get what they are after. They are the consummate IRL trolls, and the media consistently feeds them.
Apart from that, the ruling was sound. As with the case of the Illinois Nazis back in the late 70s, it's the speech that upsets and disturbs normal people that tests the limit of free speech laws. Should that be outlawed, a dangerous precedent is set.
US Supreme Court allows anti-gay funeral protests
- 03/03/2011 04:55:52 AM
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And it doesn't forbid content-neutral bans on funeral protests. Everyone wins.
- 03/03/2011 08:53:20 AM
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Here's the problem
- 03/03/2011 05:05:15 PM
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What a terrible ruling. The cliche is correct: interesting cases make for bad law.
- 04/03/2011 04:44:25 AM
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