Federal appeals court upholds funeral picketing law; Westboro Baptist Church vows to take case to Su
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Paul Hammel
LINCOLN A federal appeals court has upheld a state law restricting picketing at funerals, ruling that mourners have a right to grieve privately in a respectful environment ... free from unwanted public exploitation.
The law was enacted in response to picketing of military funerals by the controversial Westboro Baptist Church.
The law bans protests within 500 feet of a funeral service from one hour before the rites begin to two hours afterward.
The 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that it wasnt unreasonable to limit the time and location of picketing because of vulnerable physical and emotional conditions of funeral mourners.
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groundloop
(11,522 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)God damn those motherfuckers!
Archae
(46,345 posts)Don't forget it can be used against any of us also.
What I'd like to do when Dick Cheney finally dies, well, it is more a matter what I'd like to do rather than what's practical.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)It might be uncomfortable, but I think I can hold it for two hours. If I don't drink too much.
Shoonra
(523 posts).... An antipicketing/antiharassment law ought to be enacted putting the same sort of protected area around hospices and birth control clinics. That might stop the sort of disruptions we saw with the death of Terri Schaivo and the constant heckling of abortion patients.
HAB911
(8,912 posts)A free speech zone somewhere they can't hurt rational people