WBC finally got what was coming to them

[Needcatscan]

BALTIMORE (AP) -- The father of a fallen Marine was awarded nearly $11 million Wednesday in damages by a jury that found leaders of a fundamentalist church had invaded the family's privacy and inflicted emotional distress when they picketed the Marine's funeral. The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress to the Marine's father, Albert Snyder of York, Pa. Snyder sued the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified monetary damages after members staged a demonstration at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq... http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/A...-Protests.html

[Lucid_boy]

Ok, firstly. I am a christian as you know and even I believe that was wrong. God says that his people need to comfort others when they have felt death recently and celebrate the dead persons life when mourners are ready. Now I may be inncorect but I'm pretty sure that picketing someones funeral is NOT comforting nor celebratory and therefore a sin. Even if you didn't take it in a religious light it is still an incredibly mean thing to do and I want to put foreward that MOST christians wouldn't even think of picketing a funeral.

[Needcatscan]

I don't think anyone actually lumps these guys together with mainstream christianity, considering 99.9% of christians hate them as well.

[Sornaensis]

That is sad. They should be shot. Or at least locked up... And starved <.<

[Carôusoul]

Can't stand these f'in idiots. Pure, ignorant evil.

[Siиdяed]

I approve of freedom of speech, but I still can't help but cry when it gets used like this. It hurts to think that the religion I put my faith in can be interpreted in the way Phelps does.