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Sun 23 Jul 2006 15:17
by Kevin McGehee
79° and partly cloudy in Coweta County, GA
[Courting Disaster] [Wackadoodle] [Yippee-Ki-Yay!]
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You’d think with the Patriot Act allegedly sending people to Gitmo for checking out the wrong library books, the ACLU would have to be more judicious in picking its battles.
A Kansas church group that protests at military funerals nationwide filed suit in federal court, saying a Missouri law banning such picketing infringes on religious freedom and free speech.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit Friday in the U.S. District Court in Jefferson City, Mo., on behalf of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church, which has outraged mourning communities by picketing service members’ funerals with signs condemning homosexuality.
The church and the Rev. Fred Phelps say God is allowing troops, coal miners and others to be killed because the United States tolerates gay men and lesbians.» Washington Post: ACLU Sues for Anti-Gay Group That Pickets at Troops’ Burials
I wonder how Fredo knows it isn’t because the United States tolerates him?
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