Man arrested for giving Westboro Baptist Church Biden funeral protesters coffee

All right. he threw it at them. I hope they let him off easy.

Via USA Today

Three demonstrators from a Kansas church, known for its strident opposition to homosexuality and picketing of soldiers’ funerals, protested the funeral of Beau Biden on Saturday.

One man was arrested for throwing coffee at the protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., who picketed outside Wilmington’s St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church ahead of Biden’s funeral.

The three protesters held signs — including “America is doomed” — and sang anti-gay songs at the corner Pennsylvania Avenue and North Dupont Street for about an hour Saturday morning.

Unlikely: Westboro Baptist Church tweets acceptance of free tickets to Iraq to protest ISIS...

Hmm... We shall see.

We accepted!  Whence tickets? @PhilCooke: An offer to fly WBC members 2 Iraq 2 protest.  Sounds like good idea to me: http://t.co/97BEusEBxH
— Westboro Baptist (@WBCSays) August 21, 2014

Westboro Baptist Church has a dating site?

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Supremes Wrestle With Westboro Church Funeral Protests

I am all for freedom of speech and the right to peacefully protest. However, protesting a private funeral is just wrong. As if it could get any worse, the Westboro Baptist Church is protesting the funerals of military personnel who gave their lives protecting American's freedom. You can see the vile and hateful signs they carry in the above picture. I was raised in a Baptist church. I am not sure what religion the members of Westboro Baptist Church are practicing, but it isn't Baptist. Being cruel to grieving families shouldn't be condoned by any Christian or the Supreme Court.

The Miami Herald reported:

The court did not clearly tip its hand during the hour-long oral argument in the case pitting Westboro Baptist Church against a grieving Pennsylvania father. Several justices did, however, hint that the 2006 funeral protest was lawful even if obnoxious.

“Didn’t they stand where the police told them to?” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted at one point, adding that the protest “was with the knowledge and permission of the police.” But to underscore the case’s difficulty, Ginsburg herself later questioned whether the First Amendment should “tolerate” what she termed “exploiting a private person’s grief” for the purpose of getting attention.