Anti-Gay Church Punished

The Westboro Baptist Church, a religious group that have been anti-gay for years, has been sentenced by a to pay a hefty fine for invasion of privacy.

The church, who started out only going to funerals of AIDS victims, made the mistake to start going to funerals of dead soldiers to picket. The signs they carried often read, “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” “God Hates Fags,” and “Your Going To Hell.”

The propagandist group have been told to pay $10.9 million dollars in damages to the father of Lance Matthew Snyder, a soldier who died March 2006 while serving in Iraq.

The group will appeal the decision saying they have the right to invade a private funeral because of the first amendment, which brings up a very important and controversial question. What kind of line is between invasion of privacy and freedom of speech.

A group certainly has the right to say whatever they want, but doesn’t that end in private affairs. Then again, is a funeral a private affair? Especially one that is in honor of a soldier. Either way, their argument for free speech does not make much sense.

The group goes to funerals to send a message, being gay is wrong and people are dying in Iraq as a consequence. Forgive me for my stupidity, but what does one have to do with the other. We are not in Iraq because of homosexuality. It is like saying I don’t like the government, so lets kill a whole bunch of innocent people. Or even, I think the children are the future so lets cut funding to schools. When did double-speak become a social norm for logic. Who taught these idiots logic?