Fred Phelps and his West­boro Bap­tist Church have, for some time now, been trav­el­ing the coun­try protest­ing at the funer­als of Amer­i­can sol­diers killed in the line of duty. Back in 2006, they protested out­side the funeral of Marine Lance Cor­po­ral Matthew Sny­der, who was killed in action at the age of 20. See this arti­cle, the orig­i­nal com­plaint, and Monica’s (of Spark a Synapse) post on the same topic for the unpleas­ant details. Eng­lish as a lan­guage lacks invec­tives of suf­fi­cient force and color to con­demn this kind of behav­ior in the terms jus­tice demands. How­ever, has WBC done any­thing prop­erly [ . . . ]

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