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2 Aug 2018, 4:00 am
When the Roberts court ruled that the First Amendment prohibited holding the Westboro Baptist Church liable for displaying anti-gay signs outside a military funeral, its rationale would equally protect Revolutionary Communist Party demonstrators holding anti-Christian signs outside the Westboro Baptist Church. [read post]
7 May 2024, 7:12 am
Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church stood on public property and picketed a soldier’s funeral. [read post]
9 May 2022, 6:00 am
When Westboro Baptist Church activists protested at the funeral of Beau Biden, it was peaceful — but many critics rightly condemned the demonstration as extreme; some even approved of Westboro activists being physically assaulted. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 9:55 am
Andrew Sullivan is typical in this regard: In a brief post, he criticized French laws that criminalize certain kinds of hate speech while celebrating the decision in the Westboro case. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 3:28 pm
The Westboro Baptist Church raised as a defense the First Amendment. [read post]
6 Nov 2024, 9:01 pm
Over the past year, many public (and private) universities have considered revising, or in fact revised, their campus policies concerning land use generally, expressive activities on campus, and delegations of authority and procedures relating to outside speakers. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 3:06 pm
That choice requires that we shield Westboro from tort liability for its picketing in this case. [read post]
1 Apr 2023, 4:00 am
So will the Westboro Baptists, who also support the Arkansas law. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 8:24 am
To suggest anonymity should be forbidden because of troll-noise is just as bad as suggesting a ban on protesting because the only demonstrators you have ever encountered are from the Westboro Baptist Church—the trolls of the picket world. [read post]
26 Dec 2012, 11:37 am
Just last year, for example, in the case of the Westboro Baptist Church, the Supreme Court upheld the Church’s right to picket and protest the funerals of our soldiers with signs bearing repulsive messages: “God Hates the USA/Thank God for 9/11,” “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” and “Thank God for IEDs. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 8:16 am
Of course, there's nothing in the government's logic that limits it to comments posted on the Islamic Center's page, or for that matter on the Catholic Church's page or the Westboro Baptist Church's page or the Church of Scientology's page. [read post]
11 Oct 2010, 3:43 am
Phelps, the case involving Fred Phelps, erstwhile pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, whose handful of nutcase followers traipse around the country protesting military funerals, on the theory that the deaths of American soldiers are God’s punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 8:13 pm
This case may be of a piece with the lawsuit against Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church, in terms of seeking to recover for intentional infliction based on speech about private individuals. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 1:24 pm
Phelps, which deemed protected against civil damages the noxious, anti-gay, anti-American, undignified, and nonsensical speech of the Westboro Baptist Church when protesting soldiers’ funerals, society’s increased focus on the issues of “cyber-bullying” and harassment in the educational setting has prompted legislation and executive action that may infringe upon protected speech. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 8:56 am
When I confronted the Westboro Baptist Church during one of their visits to Dallas, I argued with the police for their right to be on a public sidewalk in front of a hotel when the hotel was trying to move them to the other side of the street. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 2:27 pm
The MPAA is crossing into Westboro Baptist Church territory: it has the Constitutional right to do what it's doing, but decent people everywhere should regard it with contempt and rise up against it. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 2:36 pm
In a recent case, the Supreme Court looked to the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church, a virulently anti-gay group who display hateful signs at soldiers’ funerals. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 8:43 am
He should ask himself how it feels to be in the same category as the Westboro Baptist church, those creatures who demonstrate at military funerals, and say they plan to show up at the funerals of the Tuscon shooting victims as well. [read post]
21 Nov 2023, 3:59 am
Phelps, also in 2011, the court said the hateful protests of Westboro Baptist Church were protected. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 3:45 am
Phelps, the court handed down a widely-anticipated result, that the First Amendment protected the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, whose belief system leads them to the lunatic conclusion that God is punishing America because of its tolerance of homosexuals, which results in them picketing the funerals of American soldiers killed in Iraq or Afghanistan with signs proclaiming that “God Hates Fags. [read post]
