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Why is the Westboro Baptist Church picketing Elizabeth Edwards' funeral?
More known for picketing funerals of US soldiers who have died in the Middle East, Westboro Baptist Church has vowed to picket the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards Saturday in Raleigh, N.C.
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Supreme Court: 'hurtful speech' of Westboro Baptist Church is protected
Supreme Court Justice Alito is the lone dissenter in the 8-to-1 ruling on free-speech principles, saying the conduct of the Westboro Baptist Church 'caused petitioner great injury.'
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How Tucson kept Westboro Baptist Church protests out of town
A Westboro Baptist Church spokeswoman is expected to get air time on two radio talk shows in exchange for the called-off protests. Critics say the church will get more exposure that way, but one of the talk-show hosts says the deal was worth it.
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Funeral protest: Arizona rallies to foil Westboro Baptist Church
Funeral protest plans by Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, have been met with defiance in Arizona. Tuscon residents say they'll block the protesters from getting to the mourners of Saturday's mass shooting. The state legislature has also passed a law to help.
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Westboro picketers outnumbered at Elizabeth Edwards funeral
Members of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church picketed the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards Saturday. But they were vastly outnumbered by a “human buffer” singing Christmas carols.
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Why is the Westboro Baptist Church picketing Elizabeth Edwards' funeral?
More known for picketing funerals of US soldiers who have died in the Middle East, Westboro Baptist Church has vowed to picket the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards Saturday in Raleigh, N.C.
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What Supreme Court justices asked at Westboro Baptist Church hearing
Albert Snyder says Westboro Baptist Church protesters ruined his son's funeral. The church says it has a right to free speech. The justices asked a lot of hypothetical questions about what constitutes allowable speech.
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Supreme Court: Can Westboro Baptist Church protest military funerals?
Supreme Court to hear free speech case pitting a bereaved father against the Westboro Baptist Church, which held an antigay protest near the funeral of his son, a marine killed in Iraq.
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Free speech: Westboro church Supreme Court case tests 1st Amendment
A Supreme Court case challenging the Westboro Baptist Church anti-gay protests will test the limits of free speech, with First Amendment implications for other forms of expression such as Quran burning and racist demonstrations.
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Florida church may not burn Qurans, but Kansas church says it will
Pastor Terry Jones may have ‘suspended’ plans to burn copies of the Quran at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., on 9/11, but the controversial Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., says it will.
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Dad of a fallen Marine perseveres against protests at military funerals
Albert Snyder says he won't pay court-ordered legal fees of the fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church, which organizes protests at military funerals. He sued the group after it picketed at his son's funeral in 2006, and the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear his appeal.
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Dutch MP Wilders enters Britain on free-speech ruling
Dutch MP Geert Wilders, who made a controversial film about Islam, won his appeal against a British ban imposed to stop him from spreading hatred and violent messages.
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No haters allowed: Britain's new 'least wanted' list includes Michael Savage and Fred Phelps
The radio talk show host and hate-mongering Kansas preacher – along with other assorted extremists – are no longer welcome in England.
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Court to weigh Utah sect's monument
Justices must decide if the Summum group can put up a religious display in a city park.
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U.S. Supreme Court takes a new 10 Commandments case
The Decalogue is on display in a public park in Utah. Is the park, therefore, a forum for expression of all types?
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