Fred Phelps' Church Ordered to Pay $2.9 Million For Picketing Funeral — Page 2

#26

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 7:51pm

That sign makes me physically sick.

Seriously.

Whatever hold I have on my innate pacifism gets seriously tested by these people.

#27

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 7:54pm

you and me both, dg. fortunately, they're far away enough from me and i realize that an arrest might jeopardize my pending chinese visa.

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#28

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 7:56pm

if they were within the within the legal distance then how did this case ever get to court?
No law was broken.

Don't get me wrong, I HATE HATE HATE these people, but sueleen brings up a good point about them wanting the publicity. Who really lost here?

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#29

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 7:58pm

papa - honestly, I was THIS CLOSE to severely altering my future when I saw them in Wyoming. And then those 'angels' showed up - and they WERE angels! - and I was spared.

But it was THIS DAMNED CLOSE to a different future getting laid out . . .

#30

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:00pm

we're all the better for those angels, dg.

taz, i demand immediately that you stop using any form of logic and merely cheer that they got what's coming to them! and if you ever mention that shameless whore suellen in one of my threads again i will have you hosswhipped!

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#31

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:02pm

you say that like I would mind being hosswhipped.

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#32

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:03pm

In case that applies to anyone ---

SUELEEN!!!!!!






"Don't throw me in that briarpatch . . ."

#33

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:03pm

sh*t. forgot where i was for a moment. i'll have ann coulter sit on your lap and sing lee greenwood's "proud to be an american!"

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pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

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#34

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:05pm

Phelps is in to hosswhipping

#35

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:05pm

ok! ok! I give.

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#36

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:05pm

Isn't it illegal to not pay any attention to the saftey and well being of a child?


Doesn't anyone think they are being put in dangerous postions?

She's just a big old target, when she holds a sign that says that.

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#37

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:07pm

Morosco - that is outside any conceivable boundary of . . . well, anything.

#38

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:08pm

Well DG, it is Halloween after all.

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#39

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:08pm

yeah, if he didn't break the law, this won't stay.

but as for publicity, I'm all for Phelps getting as much publicity as possible. I think he helps the LGBT community.

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#40

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:12pm

im now blynd!!


oh heplm mee!

myEYES~!!!

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#41

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:14pm

Ultimately, I think that Phelps should and will win on appeal.

However, that being said...it is nice to see that a jury of his peers found him and his band of scum sucking half-wits guilty, even if the verdict doesn't stand. I must admit I did a happy-dance.

But, I don't think anyone's first amendment rights should be taken away from them. When that starts happening to one person, no matter how despicable you find his ideas, it doesn't take a huge leap to imagine that the same thing could happen to anyone.

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#42

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:14pm

Freedom of speech means nothing unless it protects speech that we find repugnant.

As often happens, the grieving family sought relief in civil court because there was no way to punish them using legal methods- they were following the law. I have to think this will be overturned on appeal.

#43

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:25pm

Maybe it's just my eyes, but to me this picture looks doctored. Maybe it's just the perspective, but the girl really looks like her part was pasted on to the background.

Updated On: 10/31/07 at 08:25 PM

#44

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:31pm

Is that someone in the background wearing chaps?

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#45

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:34pm

yay, rah, rah, the troglodytes must pay and all that.

Exactly.

to me this sets a horrible precedent.

Exactly.

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#46

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:36pm

Best thing to do is ignore the fuKers.

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#47

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:45pm

Totally Phyllis- look at the bottom of her sign. Totally photoshopped.

#48

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:52pm

if it's photoshopped speak to the baltimore sun. follow the link and you'll see it there on their website.

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#49

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:55pm

Even if that is 'photoshopped' (is that a word now?) those are among the signs they carry - and some that carry them are children.

#50

fred phelps' church ordered to pay $2.9 million for picketing funeral

Posted: 10/31/07 at 8:57pm

if you want the photographer's email address, pm me and you can ask him yourself if it's photoshopped. i don't believe it is or they would not have let it stand as long as they have.

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r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.

...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty

pray to st. jude

i'm a sonic reducer

he was the gimmicky sort

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