OK. Scratch that. Ann Coulter is almost one-hundred percent right. Take out her nasty zing about Democrats and Keith Olbermann and Ann Coulter is one-hundred percent right.
In, “God Hates Judges,” (OK, Scratch that. Take out her nasty zing about Democrats and Keith Olbermann and God hates judges, and Ann Coulter is one-hundred percent right,) Ann Coulter writes about the abomination that is the ruling in which a federal court of appeals decided that the Westboro Baptist Church (better known as the “God Hates Fags” group) had the right to picket a Marine’s funeral.
Solely because Matthew was a Marine, a Kansas-based cult, consisting mostly of members of a single family, traveled to Maryland in order to stand outside Matthew’s funeral with placards saying things like, “God Loves Dead Soldiers,” “God Hates You,” “You’re Going to Hell,” “Semper Fi Fags,” “Thank God for Dead Soldiers,” “Thank God for IEDs” and “God Hates Fags.”
But wait, it gets funnier.
OK. Scratch that. Take out her nasty zing about Democrats and Keith Olbermann and God hates judges, and the “it gets funnier” bit — because none of it is funny — and Ann Coulter is one-hundred percent right.
The Fred Phelps cult members travel around the country and hold vile signs outside military funerals because they believe that the reason American soldiers die in wars is that God hates the U.S.A. because it tolerates homosexuals.
I’ll leave it to others to speculate as to why the very thought of male homosexuality gets Fred Phelps into such a lather.
Coulter ends with this:
Even the Fred Phelps cult’s “epic” posted online and accusing the Snyders of raising their son badly, which would seem to have the strongest claim to First Amendment protection, would not be protected in other contexts. Last week in Massachusetts, nine teenagers were criminally charged with cyberbullying, based in part on malicious postings about the victim on their Facebook pages.
Thanks to idiot lawyers, who think it makes them sound smart to say “Black is white” and “Up is down,” one of the biggest problems in society today is the refusal to draw lines. Here’s a nice bright line: Holding malevolent signs outside the funeral of an American serviceman who died defending his country constitutes intentional infliction of emotional distress.
OK. Scratch the Apocalypse. Call off Armageddon. Let’s say Ann Coulter is 95% right. That would put the Doomsday clock at about 11:55.
But overall, Coulter is right. This, like the Citizens United (corporations are people, money is speech) decision is abominable. Oddly, Coulter left out the fact that the father of the Marine was stuck paying the court costs, too. In yet another irony, Bill O’Reilly is one-hundred percent right: he’s going to pay the father’s court costs.
Coulter thinks God hates judges?
I wonder, given all her previous nasty rhetoric, if she thinks God hates fags?
For more on this, read “Freedom of Speech and Fred Phelps.”