Is Phelps a role model on free speech issues?
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-to-1 that the "Thank God for
Dead Soldiers" protesters from Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas have
First Amendment rights to protest military funerals, the question being
asked is: What's ahead?
More protests from religious groups? Or more efforts to limit them?
The
court majority determined March 2 that minister Fred Phelps and members
of his small, independent Baptist church in Topeka had free-speech
rights to picket within 300 feet of the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew
Snyder, who was killed in Iraq in 2006.
