God is punishing the military for the United States’ tolerance of homosexuality? Are these stupid bastards for real? Young men and women are dying to protect our citizens and these religious morons are protesting military funerals!!! Can these yahoos be any more despicable? I’ll bet most of them are gay; hypocrites that they are. TGO
Refer to brief story below. Source: Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Kansas-based group that has used inflammatory language to protest military funerals nationwide prompted California lawmakers to restrict how close such protesters can get to funeral services and religious observances.
The state Senate on Wednesday passed a bill by Sen. Ted Lieu that requires such groups to stay 1,000 feet from a burial site, mortuary or place of worship.
His bill, SB888, was in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in March that said protests by the Westboro Baptist Church are protected free speech. Members of the Topeka, Kan.-based church picket funerals, contending God is punishing the military for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.
The bill by Lieu, a Torrance Democrat, makes it a misdemeanor to protest within the 1,000-foot perimeter for an hour before or after a funeral.
