News Update, 3/22
Dean Minow calls for the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
High Court Will Hear Anti-Gay Funeral Protest Case
The Supreme Court is getting involved in the legal fight over the anti-gay protesters who show up at military funerals with inflammatory messages like “Thank God for dead soldiers.”
The court agreed Monday to consider whether the protesters’ message, no matter how provocative and upsetting, is protected by the First Amendment. Members of a Kansas-based church have picketed military funerals to spread their belief that U.S. deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are punishment for the nation’s tolerance of homosexuality.
The case is Snyder v. Phelps, 09-751.
Same-sex weddings in DC:
| Print article | This entry was posted by Lambda on March 22, 2010 at 2:13 pm, and is filed under Lambda News. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site. |