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May 25, 2006Congress Bars Military Funeral Protesters From Yahoo! News:
WASHINGTON - Demonstrators would be barred from disrupting military funerals at national cemeteries under legislation approved by Congress and sent to the White House Wednesday
The most challenging part about freedom of speech is giving voice to people whose opinions you might find deplorable or even just down right sickening. Phelps and his clan of inbred mutant ninja turtles, otherwise known as the Westboro Baptist Church, are a textbook example of this. I disagree with everything that his group stands for, but I disagree with the government banning him from demonstrating even more.The measure, passed by voice vote in the House hours after the Senate passed an amended version, specifically targets a Kansas church group that has staged protests at military funerals around the country, claiming that the deaths were a sign of God's anger at U.S. tolerance of homosexuals. The act "will protect the sanctity of all 122 of our national cemeteries as shrines to their gallant dead," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said prior to the Senate vote. "It's a sad but necessary measure to protect what should be recognized by all reasonable people as a solemn, private and deeply sacred occasion," he said. I'm curious as to what others think on this issue. |
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