Westboro Baptist

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by somerfrost

when speech is shown to clearly hurt others, it is not protected, I believe in the 1st Amendment but I think they cross the line. The emotional trauma they cause the families of slain heroes is certainly not what the founding fathers had in mind. Yes, much speech is crude and disgusting...that's protected but yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theater is not.

Obviously on a technicality, but I think you can see the difference between the two

[Riot]

??? The way I understand it, the case isn't about Westboro's ability to stand on a sidewalk and demonstrate their low IQ's, it's when they specifically named these people on their website and went after them.