Does anyone agree with the westboro baptist church

When they came to campus, I was among a group of students who marched in counter-protest before entering the theater to watch the play. There were fewer than 10 church members, but there were hundreds of us --students and local residents who had come together as a community to express our views.

The ACLU likes to say that the answer to hateful speech is not regulation, but more speech—by which it means speech that expresses an opposing viewpoint.

The Difficult Dialogues Initiative is one example of this ideal done right, beginning from a place of tolerance and respect and building toward an appreciation of difference. The counter-protest I took part in is one example of how to engage a hateful speaker who refuses to enter the discussion with any respect or tolerance at all. William White: Nazis and Threatening Speech There is a category of hateful speech that remains—and should remain—unprotected by the First Amendment: true threats.

In Virginia v. White is a white supremacist who allegedly threatened individuals in virulently racist terms by phone and email. The federal district court in Roanoke convicted him of making threats under a federal statute.

Our brief does not defend the specific statements White made. Rather, we contest the general threat conviction on the grounds that Virginia v. Black requires that, in order to be punished consistently with the free speech clause, he must have specifically intended to make a threat. First there is the classic and general objection that the reasonable person is a legal fiction.

Second, in the particular context of speech, there is the objection we argue in our brief. Otherwise, speech that resides at the margins of political or social acceptability will be unduly punished or chilled for fear of punishment.

Therefore, the Court held that the Phelps and his followers were "speaking" on matters of public concern on public property and thus, were entitled to protection under the First Amendment. Main content Facts and Case Summary - Snyder v. Phelps Facts Fred Phelps and his followers at the Westboro Baptist Church believe that God punishes the United States for its tolerance of homosexuality, particularly within the military. Issues Whether Westboro's signs and comments while picketing Matthew Snyder's funeral related to matters of public concern and were, thus, entitled to greater protection under the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment?

Supreme Court Holding Yes. Concurring opinion written by Justice Breyer. Dissenting opinion written by Justice Alito. Of course, there are Jews who still believe Gods l aw, but most of them have even departed from that.

Yes, the Jews killed the Lord Jesus Now they're carrying water for the fags; that's what they do best: sin in God's face every day, with unprec edented and disproportionate amounts of sodomy, fornication, adultery, abortion and idolatry! God hates these dark - hearted rebellious disobedient Jews. Every day since not most every day, not every day except ba d weather, not most days, but EVERY DAY , WBC has stood on those same sidewalks to remind you of your crimes and hatred, and that God will avenge our blood, which cries to him from that ground Gen His Christ-rejecting, God-hating Jew blood bubbled to the surface.

Yes, like his boss [John] Kerry, Clark is a Jew. Jews killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men; for bidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. WBC buys trees for Israel. WBC prays for the peace of Jerusalem.

American taxpayers are financing this unholy monument to Jewish mendacity and greed and to filthy fag lust Homosexuals and Jews dominated Nazi Germany The Jews now wander the earth despised, smitten with moral a nd spiritual blindness by a divine judicial stroke And god has smitten Jews with a certain unique madness, whereby they are an astonishment of heart, a proverb, and a byword the butt of jokes and ridicule among all peoples whither the Lord has driven and scattered them Jews, thus perverted, out of all proportion to their numbers energize the militant sodomite agenda The American Jews are the real Nazis misusers and abusers of governmental power who hate God and the rule of law.

The Jew psychiatrists and other shyster brain - washers of Temple Beth Sholom write columns and conduct seminars to vilify and slander innocent Westboro Baptists, just as their scribes, Rabbis, Pharisees and Sadducees did to the Lord Jesus Christ and his disciples in Bible days The Jews of Temple Beth Sholom are sinful, greedy, Hell-bound, money-grubbing sodomites; and they have dedicated their synagogue to be a gay and lesbian propaganda mill and recruiting depot, soliciting young people to sodomy.

They've had more experience. Jews stirred up the Romans to butcher 6 million Christians in the catacombs in the 1st century. As first century Jews stirred up the Roman tyrants in persecuting the primitive church, so do Topeka Jews today stir up Kansas tyrants in persecuting Westboro Baptists. They whine about the Nazi Holocaust, while they perpetrate the Topeka Holocaust. WBC has conducted some 20, such demonstrations during the last nine years at homosexual parades and other events including funerals of impenitent sodomites, like Matthew Shepard.

The unique picketing ministry of Westboro Baptist Church has received national attention, and WBC believes this gospel message to be America's last hope. They want to force you by law to support their filth, and they want to shut you up by law when they hate what you say.

WBC does not support the murder of Matthew Shepard However, the truth about Matthew Shepard needs to be known. He lived a Satanic lifestyle. He got himself killed trolling for anonymous homosexual sex in a bar at midnight.

Unless he repented in the final hours of his life, he is in hell. For each day that passes, he has only eternity to look forward to. All the candlelight vigils, all the tributes, all the acts of Congress, all the rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States, will not shorten his sentence by so much as one day. And all the riches of the world will not buy him one drop of water to cool his tongue.

It will damn the soul, destroy the life, and doom any nation that tolerates such ev il. God Hates Fags is a profound theological statement, which America needs more than it needs oxygen or bread.

A black dyke! An abomination! Me lots smarter now. Me be Deputy Mayor This crowd could dumb down the Western Hemisphere. The named individual is an African-American city council member in Topeka, Kansas. Here Come De Judge!!! Westboro Baptists will picket this black obfuscator, in religious protest and warning. Being black won't get you to Heaven. But promoting fags will take you to Hell. But most of us are sick and tired of self-flagellation. Shall a few isolated racist acts keep us all in sackcloth forever, repenting the sins of slave-owning ancestors?

They are cowardly, lukewarm, and ashamed of Christ's Word. They have substituted their own pathetic ideas for God's clear commandments