out. there was an argument made about privacy, the privacy of this family is violated, the phelps, folks from this church had put some information about them online about their family online. that doesn t really that is a somewhat better argument, but, you know, when you are talking about a group that is engaged in a political protest, even if it s a lunatic protest, that s at the heart of what the first amendment is meant to protect, political protest. and the fact that these facts were arguably private, although it was the fact that one of the people in the family had been divorced, which is not really a private fact, it s hard for me to see how the court would let that be an end round, end run around the first amendment. justice scalia brought up, what, the fighting words doctrine. what is that? that s a really old doctrine in the supreme court which is that if you say something that is such a provocation that it sort of triggers violence, that can be censored. but the sup
presume to tell you what the bible says. but to use elizabeth edwards funeral, to use the funeral of a service member, anybody s funeral to promote yourself, to hurt others as this church routinely does, it may be constitutional and the supreme court is going to decide that, but it is certainly unconscionable. after reporting about a arkansas school board member who posted a rant on facebook saying he liked to see gay people die, i found myself the target of this sorry little group. the head of the group, fred phelps posted this video online directed to me. who do you think you are? a muckraking little news prostitute to be passing out spiritual advice on matters such as sin and righteousness and judgment to come. you are in the baileywick of westboro baptist church you anti-christ smart alec. i really don t mean to be smart alec here but i did have
marine, snyder, who died, the police there told them you have to be 1,000 feet away, you have to stay behind this barrier, and that s exactly what the phelps did. they followed the police instructions, they held the signs, they and yet a jury still awarded the snyder family $5 million in damages. so the supreme court resumes, therefore, that ruling would be overturned and they would not get those damages. that if the phelps win, the damage award would be wiped out. there was an argument made about privacy, the privacy of this family is violated, the phelps, folks from this church had put some information about them online about their family online. that doesn t really that is a somewhat better argument, but, you know, when you are talking about a group that is engaged in a political protest, even if it s a lunatic protest, that s at the heart of what the first amendment is meant to protect, political
instructions, they held the signs, they and yet a jury still awarded the snyder family $5 million in damages. so the supreme court rules, and therefore that ruling would be overturned and they would not get those damages. ? that if the phelps win, the damage award would be wiped out. there was an argument made about privacy, the privacy of this family is violated, the phelps, folks from this church had put some information about them online about their family online. that doesn t really that is a somewhat better argument, but, you know, when you are talking about a group that is engaged in a political protest, even if it s a lunatic protest, that s at the heart of what the first amendment is meant to protect, political protest. and the fact that these facts were arguably private, although it was the fact that one of the people in the family had been divorced, which is not really a private fact, it s hard for me to see how the court would let
we we pull to the side of the road when a funeral car comes by and when i heard that these people were coming, that they were going to try to do something with this, it was just i felt like it was something i needed to do. and i needed to say something and and say something to the bully in the front yard, basically, is what i felt like doing. and facebook kind of gave me the opportunity to do that. ben, i heard you say that success for you would be if sunday morning the headlines read, elizabeth edwards quietly laid to rest. absolutely. absolutely. this isn t about me. i think susan would agree. this isn t about us, it s not about the thousands of people from the local community and abroad that are going to come over and help protest, spread the love. it s certainly not about the westboro group. this is about human decency and common courtesy. susan, how do you plan to do