Dad of a fallen Marine perseveres against protests at military funerals / Westboro Victims

I reserve hatred for very very few of God's creations on this earth, as the emotion is a wasteful one that drains your "well being" right out of you like a cancer. But this Westboro Church hate group along with Muslim terrorists get the honor as I "HATE" these people, I hate what they stand for, and I hate that they abuse the free speech clause to harass the very people who live and die to give them that freedom to abuse, as these sackless wonders do every time they appear at a funeral.

They were here in this area not too long ago, boy, you talk about wanting to "take your car and drive it right through them all like bowling pins", all I could think of at the moment of seeing them all was that scene in the Blues Brothers.

This is basically what I saw through my windshield that day although this obviously wasn't it,  

but boy did I wish at that moment I had the "missing brains" to run em all over.

Then I thought of the jail time, and thought better of it.

I won't go as far to say I pray for these people in a positive way because I don't, I do however pray for their collective disappearance from this earth, but aside from that, not much in good will in their direction from my world.

I do pray daily for the families of the soldiers fighting evil out there each day, and especially those who these moronic nimrods choose as their targets for their misguided perception of the scriptures and their meanings.

If there IS INDEED a hell, these people will be populating it soon enough, that I do pray for as well. And to think they actually won a court case against this man and his family is the biggest bastardization of the law to come out of that loony circuit court and now the Supreme's will have to right this wrong and have agreed to hear the case.

The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com: "A father of a Marine killed in Iraq says he won't pay the legal fees of a protest group who picketed at his son's funeral in 2006 – at least not until he hears from the US Supreme Court on the matter.

Albert Snyder, whose son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, was killed in Iraq, learned Friday that a federal appeals court is requiring him to pay more than $16,000 in legal fees to the Westboro Baptist Church, a Christian fundamentalist group that demonstrates during military funerals to gain attention for its antigovernment, antihomosexual message. The group rallied at Matthew Snyder’s funeral in March 2006 in Westminster, Md., chanting antigay slogans and carrying signs such as “Thank God for dead soldiers,” says Albert Snyder’s attorney, Sean Summers.

The group was protesting about 30 feet from the church’s main entrance, and Mr. Snyder had to enter through a separate entrance, Mr. Summers says.

Snyder subsequently sued the Westboro group for emotional distress and won a $5 million judgment. But on appeal, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, finding in favor of protecting the protesters' free-speech rights. About three weeks ago, the Supreme Court agreed to take the case and is expected to hear it in the fall. (Last year, the high court had declined to take up the issue.) Meanwhile, the circuit court has ordered Snyder, a salesman, to pay the church’s court expenses.

Snyder, of York, Pa., told Fox News on Tuesday that he would not pay the Westboro Baptist Church 'until I hear from the Supreme Court.'

“It’s fair to say that they are not getting any Christmas cards from Mr. Snyder,” adds Summers, in a phone interview. “He obviously thinks they are despicable and doesn’t understand why they would target him.”"  continued

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