2011年3月3日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

What recourse now to Westboro Baptist Church's rude protests? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 11:38 AM PST

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church hold anti-gay signs at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia on Veterans Day, November 11, 2010. The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a church has the legal right to stage anti-gay protests at military funerals to promote its claim that God is angry at America for its tolerance of homosexuality. REUTERS/Kevin LamarqueThe Christian Science Monitor - News that the small Westboro Baptist Church plans to quadruple the protests it holds every year, now that the US Supreme Court has upheld its free-speech right to vent at military funerals and other high-profile events, may leave some people shaking their heads in dismay. But it also represents a challenge to Americans to fight intolerance in the public square via counterprotests, say activists and religious leaders.

Pianist Douglas inspired by a gospel-singing cop (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:34 AM PST

Reuters - Some musicians, like Mozart, have an overbearing parent pushing them. Perhaps only one, Northern Irish piano virtuoso Barry Douglas, would credit a gospel-singing policeman from the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Why The Supreme Court Ruled For Westboro (Time.com)

Posted: 03 Mar 2011 12:55 AM PST

Megan Phelps-Roper of the controversial anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church pickets across the street from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland on March 1. The US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the small, controversial, anti-gay church has the right to picket military funerals as part of the US Constitution's free-speech guarantee.(AFP/Nicholas Kamm)Time.com - The Justices upheld the Westboro Baptist Church's right to picket military funerals. What the ruling says about free speech -- and America

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