In what I thought was a great verdict the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka KS was found liable by a jury in Baltimore, Maryland for invading the privacy of the Snyder family at their son Marine Lance Corporal Mathew Snyders funeral. For those of you who don’t know the members of this church have been harassing family members at funerals of our fallen servicemen for years now. They hold up signs and shout slogans like “ Thank God for Dead Soldiers” and “America is Doomed”, they claim that the soldiers deaths are a result of Gods punishment for the tolerance of homosexuals in the military.
Their antics have brought about great operations like the Patriot Guard Riders who have been invited to many funerals and provide a screen against the people from Westboro Baptist. The Patriot Guard Riders try to ensure that there is respect at the funerals of our fallen hero’s and I take my hat off to them. Words cannot describe the loathing I have for the members of this so called church that show such disrespect to our hero’s.
Check the Patriot Guard Riders out at the link below and the link to the Baltimore Sun article.
http://www.patriotguard.org/Home/tabid/53/Default.aspx
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-westboro1031,0,7191706.story
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