Bush Signs Funeral Protest Ban Into Law
Posted on May 29, 2006
Happy Memorial Day! What better way to mark Memorial Day than to protect the respect and honor our fallen heroes so deserve? That is exactly what President Bush did today when he signed this bill into law. There is a time and place for protests, and a funeral should not be one of them.
President Bush marked Memorial Day by signing a bill that keeps demonstrators from disrupting military funerals.
Before heading to Arlington National Cemetery for a wreath laying and speech, Mr. Bush signed the “Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act.”
It was passed mainly in response to a Kansas church group that has staged protests at military funerals around the country.
The group says the deaths in Iraq and elsewhere show that God is angry over U.S. tolerance of gays.
The law prevents protests within 300 feet of the entrance of a national cemetery.
Even as Mr. Bush signed the bill, members of the Kansas group stood about 300 feet from the entrance to Arlington.
They held signs that read, “Thank God for dead soldiers,” and “‘Bush killed them.”
A conservative group supporting the troops stood across the highway, holding a large sign calling troops “American heroes.”
Gov. Rick Perry signed a bill earlier this month that authorizes an immediate ban on protests at military funerals in Texas.
It was also drafted with members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. in mind.
Church members protested earlier this year at the funeral for a solider in Temple.
“There is a time and place for protests, but it is not at funerals and burials for U.S. soldiers who died to protect the freedoms we hold so dear,” Perry said as he signed the measure.KWTX
Amen to that!
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“Good, but too bad this law wasn’t passed back in the 1990s when Fred Phelps and his crew were “only” protesting gay funerals instead of those of gay veterans.”
I agree, this quack should have been shut up years ago. Free speech? Garbage. Especially if its private property. I can’t wait to get to Kansas so I can piss them all off.
“protesting gay funerals instead of those of gay veterans.”
They aren’t protesting the gay veterans, they are grateful for the dead veterans. They claim its God’s judgement on America for tolerating gays. I’m not sure what they want us to do, (set them on fire or something I guess)but they’ve been chanting their stupidity at all different kinds of military funerals, or so I’ve read. I could be wrong, but either way they need tape over their mouths.
Yes, this will be one of those rare times that I completely agree with Beaming Visionary. This law should have been passed a long time ago before it ever got to this point. And apostle is correct, it isn’t “gay” veterans they are protesting, it is all veterans they are the death of.
Jay, did you give BV the boot again? I keep trying to respond to his comments. Anyway, he was right. There. I responded.
No apostle, I booted him a long time ago.
I am not quite sure what the logic of this so called church is. We loose a relatively few soldiers in a war we chose to engage in with the understanding that we would loose soldiers in it and they thing we are being punished for homosexuality. They could have blamed 9/11, or Katrina instead and I would have seen the logic.