Good news out of Baltimore, as a federal jury awards some-$11 million to the family of a soldier whose funeral had been disrupted by doucheba...errr...congregants from Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, led by none other than Fred 'God Hates Fags' Phelps himself.
Although, honestly, is there such a huge difference between Phelps holding up a sign reading 'Thank God For Dead Soldiers', trying to drive home his message that the military refusing to execute homosexuals on sight (or something like that) is responsible for the death of American soldiers, and Jerry Falwell blaming 9/11 on 'the pagans and the abortionists'? Obviously, I think not, although I am also a pagan abortionist, so make of that what you will.
I doubt that this case will actually shut Phelps up; sadly, in a free-speech state, you simply have to accept this sort of verbal diarrhea and move on with life. But still, if he's entirely bankrupted it must make it a bit harder to pull off.
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