Equal Parts Obloquy and Opprobrium
A victory for tolerance or a threat to free speech? Picketing a (gay) soldier’s funeral with abusive signs is reprehensible, but I’m not sure the lawsuit was successful in what should be the goal: changing people’s minds. The WBC’s view is so narrow, their dogma so unthinking, that any legal action seems to them a persecution of their righteous beliefs. I find their tactics sickening, but I’m not sure this is a just outcome. How should intolerance be prosecuted? Would this have been different had it been racially-motivated? I’m sure I don’t have all the answers.
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