Church ordered to pay $10.9 million for protesting funeral.

[Hieronymus]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/31/funeral.protest/?iref=mpstoryview

(CNN) -- A federal jury in Baltimore, Maryland, Wednesday awarded $10.9 million to a father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by members of a fundamentalist church carrying signs blaming soldiers' deaths on America's tolerance of homosexuals. <more>

[krispos42]

1. First Rec!

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And first response too!

Eat it, fundie fuckers!

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[MichaelHarris]

2. What I find funny is

the other night Bill Oreilly said this family is registered as Democrats.

[YOY]

9. They are. But it's a long story.

Fred wanted to run for office and the incumbant was a Republican. He ran as a Dem and lost. The Right Wing takes that and runs miles and miles with it.

[NewJeffCT]

11. they are

Strom Thurmond was a Democrat for years, too, don't forget.

[formercia]

3. This is how to defeat the Dominionists

sue them into oblivion.

[Berry Cool]

5. Not just sue but win.

They're a family of lawyers, after all, for precisely this reason. Maybe the only way they will stop is if they're told "Fine, exercise your First Amendment right to protest, but it's going to cost you millions of dollars every time you do."

[formercia]

10. They are well represented in the legal and medical fields.

and you can extrapolate that to politics and the drug industry.

If there's a buck to be made, legal or otherwise, you can bet they will be there.

[Imagevision]

4. In honor of those who lost a loved one the least they should do is sue to stop the insanity

[OneBlueSky]

6. this won't stop Phelps . . . he doesn't have a pot to piss in . . . n/t

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[Az]

7. Take a look at the history of the Southern Poverty Law Center

Back before they were the org they are today they were a small group trying to do good by fighting racist supremacist groups. A Neo Nazi group targeted them for harassment. The SPLC turned around and sued them and was awarded $12 Million. When the group could not pay the judge awarded the SPLC whatever money they could dig up plus the groups headquarters which the SPLC turned into a museum dedicated to tolerance.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. I Phind this Comforting and Phair. The Phreaky Phelps Phamily needs to Pheel some pain.

And then they need to be driven into abject poverty.

The Phelps are Phucking Crazy.

[northernsoul]

12. Minor correction: the tort was not "protesting," it was Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress

Protest is a protected activity. Harassment of a grieving family is not.