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Jane Austen
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 Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:49 pm Post subject: Westboro Baptist Church loses lawsuit, has to pay 2.9 mil |
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-westboro1031,0,7191706.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout
On another forum I go to, a lot of people said "I hate what they're doing but that doesn't make it illegal", which I think is the general mentality but it's a civil case.
I'm so glad they decided it's not okay to protest a funeral (especially of someone you don't know).
Hope this isn't a double post. If it is you can shoot me in the foot.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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dayum! 2.9 million! 
the church is surely going to broke after this.
won't be able to run their website or anything.
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Legal or not, the Felches should be kissing the plaintiff's balls if that's all he wants out of them.
To be attacking people in such an emotionally volatile state, I'm surprised no one's gone apeshit and glossed them over with a flamethrower yet.
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Great news!
Thanks for the post Jane. |
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Finally...it's nice to see the Phelps' actually being punished for something. I've been waiting for a pissed family to take something to court, and my wish has come true.
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THANK GOD
Finally they get wants coming to them.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:29 pm Post subject: Re: Westboro Baptist Church loses lawsuit, has to pay 2.9 mi |
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| Jane Austen wrote: | http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-westboro1031,0,7191706.story?coll=bal_tab01_layout
On another forum I go to, a lot of people said "I hate what they're doing but that doesn't make it illegal", which I think is the general mentality but it's a civil case.
I'm so glad they decided it's not okay to protest a funeral (especially of someone you don't know).
Hope this isn't a double post. If it is you can shoot me in the foot. |
lol pwnd
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Nice to see a bigoted lawyer family of Fundies get what they deserve! Loki be praised!
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| Quote: | Fred W. Phelps Sr., Westboro's founder, vowed to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in Richmond, Va.
"It's going to be reversed in five minutes," he said. This case, he added, "will elevate me to something important," as it draws more publicity to his cause. |
Why hasn't anybody posted to say that Phelps is more than likely right about this?
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| Eyedunno wrote: | | Quote: | Fred W. Phelps Sr., Westboro's founder, vowed to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in Richmond, Va.
"It's going to be reversed in five minutes," he said. This case, he added, "will elevate me to something important," as it draws more publicity to his cause. |
Why hasn't anybody posted to say that Phelps is more than likely right about this? |
About what? the reverse or the publicity?
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| tonyman1989 wrote: | | Eyedunno wrote: | | Quote: | Fred W. Phelps Sr., Westboro's founder, vowed to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in Richmond, Va.
"It's going to be reversed in five minutes," he said. This case, he added, "will elevate me to something important," as it draws more publicity to his cause. |
Why hasn't anybody posted to say that Phelps is more than likely right about this? |
About what? the reverse or the publicity? |
Both, more than likely, though "something important" is a matter of perspective.
Seriously, nothing pisses this guy off more than being ignored, and suing him is therefore the wrong approach. |
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tonyman1989
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| Eyedunno wrote: | | tonyman1989 wrote: | | Eyedunno wrote: | | Quote: | Fred W. Phelps Sr., Westboro's founder, vowed to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in Richmond, Va.
"It's going to be reversed in five minutes," he said. This case, he added, "will elevate me to something important," as it draws more publicity to his cause. |
Why hasn't anybody posted to say that Phelps is more than likely right about this? |
About what? the reverse or the publicity? |
Both, more than likely, though "something important" is a matter of perspective.
Seriously, nothing pisses this guy off more than being ignored, and suing him is therefore the wrong approach. |
He might be right about the publicity thing but We can all pry to God, allah, jesus, budda and any other deity that the law suit goes all the way throught and fucks up his chruch.
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How could this case be reversed?
What could he use?
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Jane Austen
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He claims its free speech.
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JANE
I think that I shall never smell
a poem as pugnant as a hell
where grinning devils turn the screws
on Saintly Sikhs and Upright Jews
Giving them the holy scorcher,
timeless, transcendent torture
Poems can make you want to yell,
But only God can give you Hell.
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tonyman1989
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| Jane Austen wrote: | | He claims its free speech. |
I think it would be hate speech.
Any one on here know anything about the law?
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