One of his recent targets has been Princess Madeleine of Sweden. Now I ask you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, would not any man of orthodox inclination, of any age, be doing his best to make friends with this young lady?
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| Marine Father suing church for ruining Son's Funeral |
| 2007-10-26 |
| The father of a Marine killed in Iraq took the stand in his invasion of privacy suit against a fundamentalist church that pickets soldiers' funerals, saying protesters carrying signs at his son's burial made him sick to his stomach. Albert Snyder said Wednesday he had hoped for a private funeral for his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder. "They turned this funeral into a media circus and they wanted to hurt my family," Snyder testified. "They wanted their message heard and they didn't care who they stepped over. My son should have been buried with dignity, not with a bunch of clowns outside." Snyder is suing the Westboro Baptist church, whose members have picketed the funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming the deaths are punishment for the country's tolerance of homosexuality. The York resident is seeking unspecified monetary damages in the case for invasion of privacy and intent to inflect emotional distress as a result of the Topeka, Kan., church's protest at his son's funeral in Westminster in March 2006. The church's protests have inspired several state laws and a federal law about funeral protests, but the Maryland suit is believed to be the first filed by the family of a fallen serviceman. Asked Wednesday about a sign that read "Thank God for dead soldiers," Snyder said he thinks about it daily. "I see that sign when I lay in bed," Snyder said. Here's hoping he wins, and wins big. This sort of thing really cannot be adequately compensated with money alone, but this father is doing exactly what his son did: Fighting evil when he found it, where he found it, so that others won't suffer in the future because the bastards were left to run amok, spreading their vile poison hither and yon. God bless you and your family, sir. In the meantime, let us all go and do likewise... |
| Posted by:ptah |
| #11 Haven't read of too many "Lee Harvey Oswald" moments at funerals. The population general is too restrained and cultured to do it. Stairs leading to/from a county court house...that's another matter. Googling "county courthouse shooting" gets 3,250 returns. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-10-26 17:34 |
| #10 “…but the Maryland suit is believed to be the first filed by the family of a fallen serviceman.” Unfortunately this is exactly what these degenerates have been spoiling for all along. They believe a drawn out court battle will give them a legitimate platform to spew their sludge. A judge can limit their lawyer’s rhetoric in the courtroom but not the goofballs on the courthouse steps. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-10-26 17:03 |
| #9 I think a class action lawsuit is a good idea. The way things are going it's only a matter of time before some grieving family member snaps and takes out the whole bunch. They are a foul brood but it'd be better to bankrupt them. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-10-26 16:15 |
| #8 It has occurred to more than one observer that Fred doth protest too much, that is, that he might lean to the camp side of things himself and is simply in phobic denial. One of his recent targets has been Princess Madeleine of Sweden. Now I ask you, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, would not any man of orthodox inclination, of any age, be doing his best to make friends with this young lady? Case closed |
| Posted by: Lord Piltdown 2007-10-26 16:12 |
| #7 Here's hoping he wins, and wins big. This sort of thing really cannot be adequately compensated with money alone, but this father is doing exactly what his son did: Fighting evil when he found it, where he found it, so that others won't suffer in the future because the bastards were left to run amok, spreading their vile poison hither and yon. Word, ptah. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-26 16:03 |
| #6 The Westboro Baptist church is despicable and ought to be ashamed of themselves. Thier behavior is outrageous. I hope the father wins his lawsuit against them big time. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-10-26 14:43 |
| #5 Oddly enough the word no longer appears in the article online... |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-10-26 14:01 |
| #4 I've said it many times: I don't consider the Phelps Family's Li'l House o' Hate to be a church. So I obviously take exception to calling them "fundamentalist". Perhaps the writer looked in his MSM-Thesaurus under "icky-bad" and found it there. |
| Posted by: eLarson 2007-10-26 13:59 |
| #3 3dc - Iran would be OK, too. After all, there are no homosexuals there. /Ahmadinnahjacket |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-26 13:59 |
| #2 Why not deport the Phelps family to Waziristan. Seems an appropriate place for the scum. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2007-10-26 13:14 |
| #1 Why not make this a class action lawsuit. I want the phelps family homeless and bankrupt. |
| Posted by: newc 2007-10-26 12:08 |