{"id":19294,"date":"2011-03-02T13:38:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=19294"},"modified":"2011-03-02T13:38:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:38:03","slug":"ap-westboro-baptist-church-wins-supreme-court-appeal-over-funeral-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/03\/02\/ap-westboro-baptist-church-wins-supreme-court-appeal-over-funeral-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"AP: Westboro Baptist Church Wins Supreme Court Appeal Over Funeral Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP via Huffington Post:<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families.<\/p>\n<p>The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The decision upheld an appeals court ruling that threw out a $5 million judgment to the father of a dead Marine who sued church members after they picketed his son&#8217;s funeral.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion for the court. Justice Samuel Alito dissented.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts said free speech rights in the First Amendment shield the funeral protesters, noting that they obeyed police directions and were 1,000 feet from the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/03\/02\/westboro-baptist-church-w_n_830209.html\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP via Huffington Post: WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the First Amendment protects fundamentalist church members who mount anti-gay protests outside military funerals, despite the pain they cause grieving families. The court voted 8-1 in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The decision upheld an appeals court ruling that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}