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[...] Westboro Baptist Church: Cartoon Matt Davies comments on Snyder vs. Phelps, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that tests the First Amendment. [...]
You got this one right, Matt.
This particular champion of the First Amendment WILL NOT step up to defend these life hating cretins from greater Wichita. People I know more intimately often wonder why I’m NOT a Christian. These Westboro yahoos are yet another reason why.
I’m reminded of a 1988 Oliphant cartoon, in which the great maestro has to defend Larry Flynt’s First Amendment rights after he brutally lampooned the “Rev.” Jerry Falwell in a nasty cartoon in his Hustler magazine. (Not that Mr. Falwell didn’t have it coming, but, ooooh, my, it was some vile stuff.) The Supremes ruled in Flynt’s favor, nonetheless, compelling Oliphant to portray Flynt as a filthy, enormous boar, which the rest of the media had to embrace.
Mr. Flynt DID NOT sue Mr. Oliphant for libel, to his credit.
Here’s hoping a certain political candidate Mr. Davies recently skewered, far more mildly, might take a small hint…
Very clever
hey JB these low lifes are not christans.. I wonder if they even have a ” church” . But they as it may…
there is a special place in hell for them..
any one showing up at any funeral ( especialy one for a person killed in the defense of America) deserves anthing thatb happens to them..
Well done.
The great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr, famously defined the limits of 1st Amendment protections by writing that there is a vast difference between falsely shouting “fire” in an open field, and doing so in a crowded theater.
According to the Great Dissenter’s timeless analogy, while speech IS protected, perfect freedom in choosing the time and place where one speaks is not absolute and inviolable, as has been demonstrated innumerable times in the past, up to and including the sequestering of protesters away from presidential speeches, especially during the reign of George W. Bush.
I’m frankly mystified that Holmes’s words have not yet been invoked in this case; new interpretations of, or limitations on, the 1st Amendment are not necessary in the case of the self-righteous boors from the Westboro Baptist Church. Let Holmes be Holmes!
Simply rely on the American citizenry.
Let these ghouls show up at a military funeral
minus the camera-toting jackals who are instigating them,
and pure American justice will take place.
No courts, no “opinion briefs”,
If I’m in town that day, I’ll gladly assist.
For once, BC, we vaguely suffer agreement. But you STILL haven’t done your homework. These Westboro goons would be the first to tell you that YOU’RE not a Christian. Indeed, they’re Baptists (of the most vile and warped form), and, yes, they have a church building, in Westboro, a suburb of Wichita. (And, yes, trust me on this, Wichita is much like Kansas’ Los Angeles; it has suburbs.) These losers are the moral equivalent to Islamic extremists; one wonders how much longer they’ll wait to act upon their spiteful tenets violently (like we saw happen to a Wichita abortion doctor?).
My paternal uncle LCP2 (I’ll be discreet about his name is a retired Baptist deacon and frequent missionary. He utterly loathes these creeps; they defile his beliefs. It’s partially because of my Unk’s disgust for these knuckledraggers that I know about them.
As for me? Again, I’ll reiterate: It’s people like these who make me thank God I was never baptised. If these bigoted morons really believe they’re going to heaven, sign me up for 50,000 tours of hell. It’s bound to be superior an experience.