Comments:US Supreme Court upholds right to picket military funerals

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This sort of bigotry is disgusting. Nobody deserves to have a family member's funeral disturbed like this; and for such horrible reasons! The anti-gay community has to be one of the most ignorant and self-centered group of people currently in existence.

Only in America could freedom of speech be taken to such an extreme that it can be used to allow hate speech in a public place. In the UK, you'd get arrested for it, in America the courts uphold your right to do it. Shows how backward the US is.

This case dealt with intentional infliction of emotional distress. The Snyders admitted that they never read the picket signs which were held quielty by members of the Wesboro Baptist Church 1000 feet away from the funeral, ON PUBLIC LAND, where local police told them to. No voices were ever raised and the funeral was not disrupted in any way. I hope that Americans will always have a right to hold up objectionable signs on public property. This is exactly what the First Amendment was intended to protect; objectionable speech. Don't read the signs if you do not want to be bothered by what the signs say.

Much as I despise the Wesboro church and its members, I have to agree that it is important to uphold these freedoms. The more you ban real hate speech, the easier it is to twist otherwise offensive speech into "hate speech". Clear definitions just aren't enough here. Ignoring these people is the best solution, in the long run; censoring them turns them into martyrs and rebels.

As abhorrent as the Westboro Church's actions are, the judges chose correctly. Their First Amendment rights must not be infringed upon just because we don't like what they say or how they say it.

Hey, if people counter-protest against them, they can't do anything much about it. It's their free-speech rights.

yes let us continue letting people be free, for we all know that the public is sooo smart. let them have kids and let them teach their kids so 200 years down the road we are more fucked up then we are now. soical freedom is long past us if we will continue as a race.

The protesters should have been "removed" from the gene pool and still should be.