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20 Jul 2016, 11:32 am by Kent Scheidegger
*             *            *Activists from Black Lives Matter, Westboro Baptist Church and the KKK were in the square and, at one time, were said to be throwing urine at each other.We probably shouldn't laugh, but I will anyway. [read post]
7 Oct 2010, 8:17 am by PunditMom
I may be a member of the Supreme Court Bar, but I would not have wanted to be one of the nine justices at the Supreme Court for the arguments in the case between Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church and the family of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 8:50 am by Rusty Shackleford
This case involves the Westboro Baptist Church, a militantly anti-gay organization based on Topeka, Kansas. [read post]
9 Oct 2011, 9:06 am
... and encounter some different types of opponents, caught here on video by Meade. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 6:38 am by marcorandazza
… or any other speech you don’t like… with more speech. [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 9:14 am
by Zac Papantoniou, Correspondent of that which is awesome and bad-ass Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficient. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 4:10 am by Howard Friedman
 AP last week reported on the decision.Meanwhile, the Topeka Capital-Journal this week reported on power shifts within the Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 10:38 am by Robert Sewell
Fred Phelps, of the Westboro Baptist Church, has gained notoriety for protesting at funeral of military service members. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 1:34 am
Paul Gowder took the comments from my post about debating Westboro and the Phelps into his home forum. [read post]
11 Aug 2010, 9:21 am by Bruce Carton
I first saw this in the context of the Westboro Baptist Church, a Kansas church that "has sparked outrage around the country for its pickets, which feature profane and derogatory language warning people about the danger of Hell. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 9:39 am by Bruce Carton
I love the people who counter-protest against the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC is a Kansas church that thinks it is a good idea to picket funerals, among other things) by breaking out signs of their own, like the ones below: Of course I also liked the strippers who counter-protested in front of the New Beginnings Ministries church in Warsaw, Ohio when they became fed up with church members protesting outside of their strip club. [read post]
27 Nov 2017, 8:09 am by Howard Friedman
  In the case the 8th Circuit upheld Nebraska's Funeral Picketing Law against both facial and as-applied challenges brought by members of the Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 7:07 am by Walter Olson
University of Montana professors who refuse Title IX training to be reported to federal government [FIRE, more, Missoulian] Professor yanked from public-university classroom over offensive out-of-class tweet [Popehat, Peter Bonilla/FIRE] Preacher/historical fantasist/horrible human being Scott Lively has probably accomplished more actual evil in life than the picketers of the Westboro Baptist Church, yet it raises disturbing First Amendment questions to let him be sued in U.S. court for… [read post]
6 Apr 2008, 11:11 am
Last month, I wrote about the decision of the Kansas Supreme Court striking down, on justiciability grounds, the state's statutory ban on picketing at and near funerals, a law targeting the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 9:34 pm by Lawrence Solum
Phelps whether Albert Snyder can sue the Reverend Fred Phelps and other members of the Westboro Baptist Church for invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress for protesting near his son’s funeral. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 6:24 am by Cormac Early
 Mollie Reilly of The Huffington Post reports on the brief filed by the Westboro Baptist Church “in support of neither party” but “suggesting reversal” in Hollingsworth v. [read post]
7 Nov 2006, 7:11 pm
Members of the outspoken Westboro Baptist Church ("WBC") attended the Marine's funeral, uninvited, to express their views against homosexuality, Catholocism, and the military. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 9:52 am by Media Law Prof
The Supreme Court has ruled, 8-1, that the First Amendment protects speakers on matters of public concern, even at funerals. [read post]
24 Sep 2009, 5:32 pm
 Well, that would be the Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]