When was the last time you heard anything about the ACLU defending a church? Maybe never.
Well, Kansas-based Westboro Church is not your typical church. They’re the lunatics who stage disgusting protests at the funerals of American soldiers who die in combat.
Naturally, the ACLU thinks that’s just a dandy thing for them to do. It’s all about freedom of speech, you know. And cities who ban the protests are committing the ultimate constitutional sin – opposing an ACLU client. (We’re not sure which article of the constitution that clause is found, but it must be in there somewhere).
Here’s how St. Louis Today tells the story:
The American Civil Liberties Union sued Maplewood today on behalf of a controversial Kansas-based church that protests at the funerals of soldiers, alleging that the city’s funeral protest ban is unconstitutional.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, is a first in eastern Missouri but part of a broader effort by the ACLU to go after state and local laws that have been passed in recent years targeting funeral protests, said Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri.
Missouri and Illinois are among the more than two dozen states and the federal government that have passed similar laws. Many, if not all, were prompted by the activities of the Westboro Baptist Church and founder Fred Phelps, who believe that America is being punished by the deaths of soldiers and others for its “tolerance” of homosexuality. Church members began protesting at the funerals of gays but then started protesting at soldiers’ funerals and carrying signs such as “Thank God For Dead Soldiers.”
Everything about these protests is vile. But the worst is the little boy in the bottom photo who’s carrying a sign that says, “FAG TROOPS.” What kind of horrible human being would take a small child into this situation and use them as a prop to hold such a sign?
We say let’s hire the ACLU to sue the Westboro Church for discriminating on the basis of sexual preference.
Source: GatewayPundit.com
