Reply #15: Hhmmmmm, Carroll College is a private Roman Catholic college . . . [View All]

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Hhmmmmm, Carroll College is a private Roman Catholic college . . . thus it can discriminate . . . e.g., as in not allowing Planned Parenthood to do A, B, C, or D on its campus due to Carroll College religious stance against abortion and contraceptives.

As for first giving permission to, and then removing permission from, Human Rights Network having "a table with brochures at the (speaking) event" of murdered 21-y.o. gay Matthew Shepard's mother, it depends upon several legal factors including whether Montana, in law, protects homosexuals in such circumstances and/or is this contractual law? Perhaps the Montana chapter of the ACLU should be involved. That is, if Human Rights Network and State Rep. Christine Kaufmann, co-director of Human Rights Network, want to involve Carroll College in protracted and expensive litigation. A weighing of the costs and benefits is in order. There are many unknown variables including the politics of Representative Kaufman. And, one cannot determine from newspaper articles all the relevant facts and circumstances thus the legal ramifications!

Finally, as for those hate-filled and litigious idiots of the so-called "Westboro Baptist Church" (who seemedly incorporated as such to evade taxes and as a litigation loophole), it seems apparent that their flyer and its vitriol is w/i the bounds of legality if it does not incite injury to those targeted or contains no defamation of character as Phelps couches in "religious tenet" opinions.

Perhaps DUers want to notify Morris Dees at the Southern Poverty Law Center who has quite a large file on Phelps and his kids aka "Westboro Baptist Church." SPLC's contact webpage is http://www.splcenter.org/legal/contact.jsp

As an added note, this is not the first time that Phelps and his adult children (masquerading as a religious institution) have targeted Shepard's mother.

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edited to add: I hate to use your bandwidth, PageOneQ, but I did try to find this flyer on Phelps' website and came up w/ zero. Cut me off if you want, no hard feelings.
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