Posted on 03/02/2011 7:26:59 PM PST by pissant
Sarah Palin voiced disappointment with a Supreme Court decision Wednesday protecting the First Amendment rights of anti-gay protesters at military funerals. Continue Reading
"Common sense & decency absent as wacko ‘church' allowed hate msgs spewed@ soldiers' funerals but we can't invoke God's name in public square," Palin tweeted .
The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church's right to protest outside the funerals - though the court recognized the right of local authorities to put restrictions on how close to a proceeding the group can protest.
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That's all this is about ~ respect. Westboro respects no one.
We are all praying for their early death and dismemberment, and not necessarily in that order.
And the Justices who couldn't see what the question was deserve no less (but not until we get Obama out of there ~ wouldn't want him appointing more wierdos and perverts).
>> She is indeed criticizing the ruling.
Uhhh... not this ruling, but the other rulings the wrap chains around Christianity.
He said in the “hood”.
Kind of hard to see how it would be tolerated there....
Sorry, Palin is 100% correct. If this is a free speech issue, does the supreme court now say ANY speech, anywhere, anytime is ok?
What definition of free speech is designed to protect the right to laugh, dance, sing and celebrate the death of a child,,,in front of parents, as those parents are literally burying him?
If the right to say anything, anywhere is so holy,, can we now make the most minor joke about bombs at airports? Can we say wear a “fu@k Obama” shirt to a rally? You DO know that even wearing a T-shirt that is obnoxious towards Bush, Obama, or any president will get you removed from a rally. Are we now allowed to pray at the supreme court steps?
Wear a T shirt to the next Obama rally saying “pray for the death of Obama”. See if you get the “Westboro legal protection”! Secret service will arrest you.
The supremes have made it official,,, the little people have to tolerate ANY insult no matter how depraved. Politicians cannot be insulted or molested.
“You really believe Governor Palin doesn’t understand the issue or the 1st Amendment?
You betcha.”
—Aren’t you the guy, who just a few days ago, was trying to tell me that what Walker was doing with collective bargaining rights was blatantly “unconstitutional”... but you had no cases whatsoever to support your claim? And then you uttered some gibberish about Freedom of Assembly?
You know what they say about glass houses...
Levin agreed with Palin that the SCOTUS has made a hash of the First Amendment -- allowing free speech in some cases and restricting it in others, without being consistent in their rulings.
That is how I interpret Palin's comments, as well.
I think she's more frustrated at the double-standards and hypocrisy that SCOTUS uses on these rulings than being angry at the ruling itself. You can see the frustrated tone in her tweet. After all, they found a right to privacy somewhere in the margins of the Constitution that justifies the killing of our unborn children.
Where did Palin say it she didnt agree with the constitutional grounds
Frankly, everybody who sides with Westboro in this practice is a barbarian, a whoremonger or a POS.
They and their relatives should be entertained in similar fashion until they give it up.
I actually think you might be right. She’s not so much ripping the SCOTUS for this particular decision - as correct as it is - but for the BS they’ve pulled from their arses on previous 1A cases.
You can’t yell fire in a theater, Palin is right!
Your man Mit would be with the courts also!
Christians arrested outside Arab festival in Dearborn (for preaching the Gospel): http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Jul10/Art_Jul10_01.html
Christian ministers arrested for praying near gay festival: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2007/jul/07071001
In each case the charge was “disorderly conduct.” So praying and discussing the gospel outside the events of certain (protected) groups is “disorderly conduct,” but going to military funerals and screaming “Thank God for dead soldiers” at the bereaved is “protected speech.”
That’s how it works, it appears.
Damn, you actually agreed with me?
Are the Stanley Cup Finals in Hell this Spring?
Though repulsive, the WBC has the same right as Pissant to espouse seriously juvenile, misguided views. But the Supreme Court would applaud Jim Robinson’s right to tell Pissant to take his tired act somewhere else.
Then by all means, feel free to ignore my gibberish here as well.
She simply stated the fact that “common sense and decency absent” was missing from the Court’s decision. On that she is correct. Unfortunately, in the field of Law, common sense and decency are often absent. Although the decision may have been technically correct, although that’s open to question, the result doesn’t comport with common sense or decency. Personally, I believe Alito’s dissent is more persuasive than the majority opinion.
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