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call me communist if you want. but sometimes "freedom of speech" goes too far.
Dad of a fallen Marine perseveres against protests at military funerals - Yahoo! News
Dad of a fallen Marine perseveres against protests at military funerals - Yahoo! News
Albert Snyder, whose son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, was killed in Iraq, learned Friday that a federal appeals court is requiring him to pay more than $16,000 in legal fees to the Westboro Baptist Church, a Christian fundamentalist group that demonstrates during military funerals to gain attention for its antigovernment, antihomosexual message
“Military funerals have become pagan orgies of idolatrous blasphemy, where they pray to the dunghill gods of Sodom and play taps to a fallen fool,” states a press release posted on the church’s website, announcing the rally at a memorial service for Lance Cpl. Justin Wilson. At the bottom of the press release are printed the words “Thank God for IEDs,” referring to the roadside bombs that have killed thousands of troops in both wars.
carrying signs such as “Thank God for dead soldiers,” says Albert Snyder’s attorney, Sean Summers.
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