ARLINGTON, Va. Twenty-two media organizations have sided with a radical church against the father of a fallen Marine who is trying to sue it for picketing his sons funeral.
The media organizations filed a friend-of-the-court brief on Wednesday with the Supreme Court in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church, which protests near servicemembers funerals because it believes that troops deaths and other national tragedies are divine revenge for Americas tolerance of gays and lesbians.
The list includes the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Dow Jones, the E.W. Scripps Company, the Hearst Corporation, NPR, The New York Times, and the Tribune Company (parent of the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times). Jeff Schogol of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes reported these companies joined other free-press advocates in supporting these hateful incitements:
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For some strange reason, this does not surprise me. They hate the military more than hate groups.