So, the lunatics of the Westboro Baptist Church called off their picketing in exchange for free air time on the radio?

I'm not happy about it, but until the Supreme Court decides Snyder v Phelps, it's probably the best alternative. Actually banning them, as satisfying as that would have been, is almost certainly unconstitutional (and prior restraint to boot). It quite likely would have given these asshats yet another platform from which to be asshats.So, you give them their moment of idiocy on the radio, which we can all turn off much more effectively than we can ignore offensive signs at a public event.

All in all, a tolerable trade, even if we shouldn't have had to make it in the first place. I hope that SCOTUS manages to uphold the "intentional infliction of emotional distress" at the root of Snyder, and does it in such a way that the Feds don't start immediately arresting anybody they disagree with on IIED charges. We'll use that to sue these jackasses into nonexistence.

PamPerdue 59 months ago.

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