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Anti-Gay Church Prepares For US Supreme Court Case

FAC August 4, 2010

Members of a Kansas church sued for protesting outside a Marine’s funeral are gearing up to present their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in October. News August 4, 2010 By The Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ― The high court is scheduled to hear arguments Oct. 6 in the case of Westboro Baptist Church, which claims its protests outside a 2006 funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq were free speech protected by the

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First Amendment: State attorneys general sign ‘friend of court’ brief in Marine funeral suit

donal brown June 3, 2010

Nearly every state in the union is backing the family of a Marine in a Supreme Court case pitting the rights of the Westboro Baptist Church to picket their son’s funeral against the family’s right to privacy. -db ABC News May 31, 2010 By Devin Dwyer WASHINGTON, D.C. – Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide

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First Amendment: State attorneys general sign ‘friend of court’ brief in Marine funeral case

donal brown June 3, 2010

Nearly every state in the union is backing the family of a Marine in a Supreme Court case pitting the rights of the Westboro Baptist Church to picket their son’s funeral against the family’s right to privacy. -db ABC News May 31, 2010 By Devin Dwyer WASHINGTON, D.C. – Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide

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Provocative signs at Marine’s funeral ruled protected speech

donal brown September 27, 2009

A federal appeals court ruled that, though repugnant, signs such as “Thank God for dead soldiers” at a Marine’s funeral were constitutionally protected as speech intended to spark public debate. -DB The Baltimore Sun September 25, 2009 By Nicole Fuller A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a fundamentalist Kansas church’s protest outside the funeral of a Westminster Marine killed in Iraq is protected speech and did not violate the privacy of the service member’s

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