how do you feel about fred phelps and his church having to pay 11 million dollars to the family of one of the?

Question

fallen soldiers who's funerals they protested?

Answer 1

I feel great.
Looks like their karma ran over their dogma.

Answer 2

I'm a christian. Though I believe it was a tad extreme I can understand the reasoning & agree.

No one should have the right to interfere in a private ceremony in a way that deliberately causes more pain just because they have problems with homosexuality. I can keep up with their line of thought but for the life of me it's still mind boggling reason.

These people are just plain out weird at minimum. Brutally cruel & sadistic at worse. I don't know what god they think they worship but it sure isn't any god I know.

Hopefully the award is large enough to detour any other weirdos into thinking freedom of speech allows you to say or do anything no matter the consequences.

Btw to those concerned about the first amendment rights cemetaries are private property, including the roads in them, not public. Thus anyone can be legally removed by the owners request. Many have long posted either on the gates or in the office rules that must be abided by.

Answer 3

+PAX

First, isn't the Church just the family?

As the mom of a Soldier wounded in Iraq and a Marine getting ready to go back again, I think he should have to do a tour in Iraq as well as pay the 11 mil.

Protesting military funerals! How low can a human sink?

Answer 4

The man and his followers to me are loonier than all the loony toon cartoons put together. I also do question the legislation banning protests at funerals. As sickening as it is, I feel that prohibiting protests at funerals is impeding on the groups First Amendment rights. Do I agree with the lawsuit, no. It is another way of impeding on the 1st Amendment clause of free assembly and protests. Phelps will get his comeuppance in due course. He is a hateful man that dares to call himself a man of God. I hope that he and his followers change their ways before they are thrown off this mortal coil. I am also a man of faith in the judgment of God. This protest and the media attention will only drive this lunatic and his follower to be more virulent in their actions. Sometimes, ignoring a bully will eventually make him disappear. Sometimes standing up to the bully will also cut him down to size. Either way, this bully named Fred Phelps needs to be humbled.

Answer 5

The Klu Klux Klan lost a lot of power when a black lady in Alabama sued them. See won and after all the appeals, she still won. She won all their money, their property, their computers, and their real estate. She made their headquarter a black civic center, I think.

I think that Fred's Church and people should loose everything they own, I mean everything. Houses, cars, jewelry, dishes, underwear, money, credit limits on their credit cards, and the milk in the fridge, while there take the fridge. I do not want them to go to jail. I want them to go to Gitmo with the rest of the terrorists.

Answer 6

I think they are disgusting pigs and are in no way doing the work of God. I am not throroughly schooled on legal matters, but don't they have a right to protest anything, even funerals? Would love to find out if anyone knows.

Answer 7

I don't think that any reasonable person, on either side of the gay rights issue or either side of the war issue, agrees with what the church did. It must be an independent Baptist church, because I cannot imagine any legitimate religious organization condoning the behaviour of the pastor or the congregation. I hope that all decent and right-thinking Christians will distance themselves from that outfit. Any "Christian" who does not so is not decent, or right-thinking, or Christian.

I thought this was a pretty good answer, but "Purgator..." (two down from me) should get best answer on this one.

Answer 8

Wheres this story at? I havent heard this one yet. Why would anyone want to protest someone else's funeral? Just because the person was a soldier?

Answer 9

I loathe Fred Phelps.

I despise the hatred he spews.

However -- in every instance, he has remained on public property during his protests.

To fine him for protesting on public property violates the 1st Amendment. Laws prohibiting funeral disturbances violate the 1st Amendment.

Let Phelps speak and prove what a non-issue he really is.

Answer 10

Yes, it was such a vile and lewd act that they did, they really deserve to have their religion status revoked so the money comes from their church and not the tax payers. They deserve to be labeled an extremist cult, and this act portrayed as a terrorist act. What they did, their beliefs are worse than despicable and immoral; they are even worse than bigotry and ignorance.

Answer 11

they won't pay it. Fred's was a lawyer...he knows how to hide his assets and tangle this thing up litigation so he never has to pay a cent.

His own lawyer is his daughter and I'm sure she works for nothing so this isn't costing him anything in legal fees. He can keep appealing and finding ways to not pay.