Posts Tagged ‘westboro baptist’

Speechless


10 Feb

I believe in marriage equality- rephrase- I believe in equality.  I also believe in the right to free speech.

The bill allowing marriage equality inWashingtonState is now just awaiting the governor’s promised signature to become law.

In much sadder news, a father killed himself and his two boys this week.

Now, the group that protests funerals will be protesting the funeral for those two little boys. According to them, their deaths are God’s punishment for passage of marriage equality.

I believe in their right to say stupid things, but that does not make what they are saying right.

We Have a Right to Free Speech, Even When We Don’t Want to Hear it


03 Mar

I hate the Westboro Baptist Church, and all it stands for, but the Supreme Court made the right decision, in their ruling that the church can not be sued for protesting outside military funerals.

No matter how much I dislike what you’re saying, our soldiers are fighting and dying for your right to say it. And while I think you’re discrediting their sacrifice through these protests, I think it would be even more greatly discredited if we took that right away.

This was as close to no win situation as the court gets. I think they went the right way.

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