The Supreme Court's 8-1 decision in the controversial case Snyder v. Phelps held that the First Amendment protects the Westboro Baptist Church members who have been staging anti-gay protests at military funerals.
Albert Snyder is the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder who was killed in the line of duty on March 3, 2006 in Iraq.
Snyder wanted the U.S. Supreme Court to restore a U.S. District Court's verdict that found the Kansas-based church had invaded his privacy and defamed his son when it protested outside of his son's military funeral in 2006.
Visit the website that Albert Snyder set up about this suit.
Westboro Baptist Church is led by Rev. Fred Phelps who has traveled across the country with his family for over 20 years declaring that America's acceptance of homosexuality has paved the way for the damnation of the United States. They have gotten a lot of publicity by staging these anti-gay protests outside of high-profile trials, Catholic and Jewish events, as well as military funerals making headlines in both national and international news coverage.
In addition to staging the anti-gay demonstration outside of Marine Lance. Cpl. Matther Snyder's funeral, they later wrote about him on the Westboro website.
Visit the Westboro Baptist Church official site. NOTE the URL of the Church's site - in the interest of decency I decided not spell it out here. I was rather shocked - even knowing the hateful and offensive nature of their 'protest" signs and speeches - it's supposed to a church for goodness sake.
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