Church's funeral protests before U.S. top court

[CBC News]

The U.S. Supreme Court began hearing arguments in a case that pits a dead marine's grieving father against the Westboro Baptist Church, an obscure Kansas church that protests at soldiers' funerals.

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[karrie]

To me freedom of speech should stop at inciting violence, and by standing at a soldier's funeral and gloating at his death, that's precisely what this group do. They prey upon people at their weakest and most emotional in an attempt to spark a reaction, and I can't believe the restraint these families have shown thus far.

If they are allowed to continue, they should, at the very least, be held criminally accountable for the violence that will errupt one day because of their actions.