Crazy in the USA

Mark Absher

10-07-10

9:45PM

This topic has been weighing on me since I decided on religious division as my topic, and I would be remiss if I didn’t admit I was looking for an excuse to write about it. Fortunately, the Supreme Court heard a case involving them, so it worked out perfect. I am referring to the Westboro Baptist Church. These people are the ones who go ahead and protest funerals of soldiers, blaming their deaths on gays in America, divorce, abortion, and anything else their pitiful God condemns. This particular case pits them against the family of Matthew Snyder, a 20year old who died in Iraq in 2006. His family is suing this organization for protesting at his funeral, and causing “intentional emotional distress.” The family initially won a big settlement, but it was doomed to be overturned in appeal and then made it to the Supreme Court.
The problem for the Snyder family is this, they can’t win. It is truly that simple. In fact, I’m so convinced they’ll lose that I’m shocked the court agreed to hear the case. 1st amendment cases are treaded on very lightly by the court, for fear of any precedence that would limit this speech. The problem on the flip-side, is that this is one thing 99.9% of Americans can agree on these days, that these people are out of their $#*^! minds! You want a textbook social problem as we have discussed, it is these nuts saying God Hates Obama, and Thank God for Dead Soldiers. The only problem is they aren’t a large enough problem to warrant any response, that and we are restricted on doing much by the 1st amendment. This is where religion shows it true colors, we bash Muslims all the time, we being the ignorant so-called “Christian” Americans. Yet, our fringe fundamentalists are just as nuts, if only less violent. Grow up you sick Baptists. Take your ignorant beliefs and silly pitiful God back to Kansas and stay there.




http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-10-06/news/bs-md-snyder-arguments-20101006_1_sean-e-summers-westboro-baptist-church-protests