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<blockquote data-quote="vvvvvvv" data-source="post: 1473821" data-attributes="member: 5151"><p>WBC conducts their protests in accordance with the restrictions of the state that are reasonable according to <em><a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=30121711727218786" target="_blank">Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence</a></em><a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=30121711727218786" target="_blank">, 468 US 288 (1984)</a>.</p><p></p><p>At the time of the Snyder funeral, there was no distance or time restriction in Maryland; Westboro set up their protest 1000 feet away, which would be well within the bounds of current Maryland law require 100 feet.</p><p></p><p>The funeral motorcade passed 200-300 feet in front of the protest (approximately one block), and Snyder could only see the tops of the picket signs and not the contents of the signs themselves. Snyder only knew about the actual protest itself after the funeral when he saw the new coverage of the event.</p><p></p><p>"If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable." <a href="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0491_0397_ZO.html" target="_blank"><em>Texas v. Johnson</em>, 491 U. S. 397, 414 (1989)</a></p><p></p><p>That statement is still true today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vvvvvvv, post: 1473821, member: 5151"] WBC conducts their protests in accordance with the restrictions of the state that are reasonable according to [I][URL="http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=30121711727218786"]Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence[/URL][/I][URL="http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=30121711727218786"], 468 US 288 (1984)[/URL]. At the time of the Snyder funeral, there was no distance or time restriction in Maryland; Westboro set up their protest 1000 feet away, which would be well within the bounds of current Maryland law require 100 feet. The funeral motorcade passed 200-300 feet in front of the protest (approximately one block), and Snyder could only see the tops of the picket signs and not the contents of the signs themselves. Snyder only knew about the actual protest itself after the funeral when he saw the new coverage of the event. "If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable." [URL="http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0491_0397_ZO.html"][I]Texas v. Johnson[/I], 491 U. S. 397, 414 (1989)[/URL] That statement is still true today. [/QUOTE]
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