If you have missed the fervor surrounding the heinous actions by the WBC [which either stands for Wart-filled Bile-spewing Colons or Westboro Baptist Church depending on who you ask] and the infamous pastor Fred Phelps please consider yourself lucky.
They seem to find great pleasure in playing on the grief of others by carrying signs such as “Thank God For IEDs” while protesting at [among other locations] the funerals of fallen soldiers. They also seem to enjoy holding up signs saying how got hates homosexuals and attacking the Catholic Church. While I could go on to discuss every disgusting thing that has ever floated to the surface of their rather smooth textured minds, there is really no point.
Ultimately, the truth is that they have the right to say disgusting things in public places and we have the right to ignore them. When it comes to saying things that are specifically meant to infuriate those people grieving at a funeral, I think that perhaps we could craft laws that would protect their rights in this way:
It is considered a misdemeanor crime to physically assault someone carrying out a protest at the funeral of any person and any person found to have severely physically assaulted someone in the act of such a protest will be subject to a cumulative fine beginning from $.10 not to exceed $1.00 and civil fines also beginning from $.10 and not to exceed $1.00. Failure to pay such a fine may subject the offender to the possibility of up to 30 seconds of public service. [Such public service should consist of telling those who have been beaten that they did a good job in accomplishing their goal of inflaming the other person to violence.] Once restitution is made, all records of this offence will be immediately expunged.
I wonder how many more protests we would see at funerals. I would hope for at least a few more.
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