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March 3, 2011

Supreme Court: Church Can Protest Military Funerals 
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The Supreme Court has upheld the free speech rights of a church that
protests military funerals to publicize its homophobic views. The
Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church says it believes military deaths
are God's punishment for homosexuality in the United States. On Tuesday,
the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that the church has a legal right to hold
the protests. The ruling came in the case of a father of a slain Iraq
war veteran who sued the church after it protested his funeral.



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