Right to Picket Funerals Headed to Supreme Court

If you’re part of the LGBT community in the U.S. you’re probably familiar with Fred Phelps and his Klan from the Westboro Baptist Church who have been in the midst of controversy for picketing anything remotely ‘gay’, which somehow includes the funerals of U.S. soldiers as they claim the reason they’ve died in a war is because “God Hates Fags” and dead soldiers are somehow God’s way of punishing the U.S. for tolerating and accepting the LGBT community (not that the U.S. really does either).

However, the pickets have some people upset, and now the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments on October 6th whether or not the protesting of funerals is free speech protected by the First Amendment.

Albert Snyder, of York, PA, has filed suite against the church for emotional distress and invasion of privacy when members protested outside the funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, in Westminster, Md.

WBC’s argument that they’re exercising free speech was previously upheld by a lower court.

Want to know more about WBC? Listen to gayagenda’s interview with Shirley Phelps-Roper here!