Luissa
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- Sep 7, 2008
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I don't think they should protest at a funeral, but this is like when they have the Aryan parade in north Idaho. If we tell them they cannot have their parade, who we will tell next that they cannot have their parade? In this country we have to allow people who we do not agree with to have certain rights, so our rights are not taken away. See my sig..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:
Read more: NewsBusters.org | Exposing Liberal Media Bias
For some strange reason, this does not surprise me. They hate the military more than hate groups.