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• High court: Does father's pain trump free speech? (AP)
• Supreme Court weighs rights for funeral-protesting church (AFP)
• Religion News in Brief (AP)
• Supreme Court: Can Westboro Baptist Church protest military funerals? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Crowds, protesters at high court for speech case (AP)
• Court hears Muslims' complaints against lawmaker (AP)
• German Catholics want Santa-free Christmas (Reuters)
• Anti-gay church's lawyer study in contradictions (AP)

High court: Does father's pain trump free speech? (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:11 PM PDT AP - Supreme Court justices, in a rare public display of sympathy, strongly suggested Wednesday they would like to rule for a dead Marine's father against fundamentalist church members who picketed his son's funeral — but aren't sure they can.

Supreme Court weighs rights for funeral-protesting church (AFP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 01:11 PM PDT AFP - The US Supreme Court Wednesday weighed whether an anti-gay religious group that pickets military funerals with signs that read "Thank God for dead soldiers" is exercising its right to free speech or invading a grieving family's privacy.

Religion News in Brief (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 07:55 AM PDT AP - An Indianapolis church that has stood on a busy commercial corner for nearly a century says the city is infringing on its right to sell the property by imposing a historic designation on the building that prevents it from being demolished.

Supreme Court: Can Westboro Baptist Church protest military funerals? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:36 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court is set to hear a high-stakes battle over free speech on Wednesday in an appeal filed by the father of a US Marine killed in Iraq who claims his son’s funeral in 2006 was disrupted and ruined by an antigay protest.

Crowds, protesters at high court for speech case (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:33 AM PDT AP - Members of a fundamentalist church are circling the Supreme Court in protest, brandishing an assortment of the kinds of mocking placards they've been carrying to military funerals

Court hears Muslims' complaints against lawmaker (AP) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 05:15 AM PDT AP - Muslims in the Netherlands say that remarks by politician Geert Wilders have poisoned attitudes toward them, making them feel unwelcome and at risk, according to complaints disclosed at his hate speech trial Wednesday.

German Catholics want Santa-free Christmas (Reuters) Posted: 06 Oct 2010 01:17 AM PDT Reuters - A group of German Catholics wants to do away with Santa Claus because of the fictional figure's commercial hype and replace him with St Nicolas and the selfless giving they say he represents.

Anti-gay church's lawyer study in contradictions (AP) Posted: 05 Oct 2010 08:03 PM PDT AP - In one photo, Margie Phelps has a furrowed brow and is stomping on the American flag at one of the numerous protests her fundamentalist church has held nationwide against the military, gays and the Catholic church.

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