Virginia won’t back hate-speech suit

Dan82 · Jun 2, 2010

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/n...olitics/article/CUCC02_20100601-222805/348396

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli yesterday again asserted the legal independence that has drawn controversy to his office -- this time by not joining a high-profile lawsuit.

Cuccinelli's office announced that it is not joining 48 other states in filing a supporting legal brief on behalf of Albert Snyder, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq whose funeral in Maryland was picketed by Westboro Baptist Church of Kansas, a hate group.

Among other things, the church pickets funerals of American soldiers, claiming God has killed them for defending a nation of "sodomite hypocrites."

Snyder is suing Westboro and its pastor, the Rev. Fred W. Phelps, for what he alleges was a disruption of the funeral for his son, Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq in 2006. Church members have become nationally known for heckling at military funerals and hoisting signs that berate mourners with slogans such as "You're in hell" and "God hates you."

After Snyder won a $5 million verdict in district court, an appeals court reversed the decision, saying the Westboro protestors were exercising their First Amendment right to free speech. The case is now moving to the U.S. Supreme Court...
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I’m kind of surprised given the large military presence in Virginia.

Emberstone · Jun 2, 2010

He was a idiot when he was elected, he is a idiot now, he will be a idiot when he finally dies a embaressing death on the toilet due to being so full of crap that he tries to push it out, and his head explodes.

Alex19 · Jun 3, 2010

it is the south, so im not surprised

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