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I can't believe this crap!
alledan
Member Posts: 19,541
Thet should not be allowed no closer than 5 miles-JMHO!
COLUMBUS (AP) -- The Ohio House has unanimously passed a bill prohibiting protesters from coming within 300 feet of funerals or burials for servicemen killed in the Iraq war. The Senate could pass the legislation as early as next week.
Democratic State Representative John Boccieri of New Middletown also is an Air Force reservist. He says the bill walks the line between the First Amendment rights of an anti-gay group staging funeral protests around the country and the privacy rights of grieving families.
Boccieri says lawmakers are trying to keep protesters at a distance, not regulate their message. "We are not trying to curb any content of the speech this group, or any other group, is making, we just want to make sure they're at the curb," said Boccieri.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio has suggested it may fight the bill in court if it becomes law.
The Ohio vote came as the U.S. House of Representatives passed a similar bill in response to the same group, members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, which believes the deaths in Iraq are God's punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality.
COLUMBUS (AP) -- The Ohio House has unanimously passed a bill prohibiting protesters from coming within 300 feet of funerals or burials for servicemen killed in the Iraq war. The Senate could pass the legislation as early as next week.
Democratic State Representative John Boccieri of New Middletown also is an Air Force reservist. He says the bill walks the line between the First Amendment rights of an anti-gay group staging funeral protests around the country and the privacy rights of grieving families.
Boccieri says lawmakers are trying to keep protesters at a distance, not regulate their message. "We are not trying to curb any content of the speech this group, or any other group, is making, we just want to make sure they're at the curb," said Boccieri.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio has suggested it may fight the bill in court if it becomes law.
The Ohio vote came as the U.S. House of Representatives passed a similar bill in response to the same group, members of the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, which believes the deaths in Iraq are God's punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality.
Comments
This AIN'T IT!!!
5 miles isn't far enough.
The whole group is a waste of good air.
Amazing how doing the "right" thing escapes most politicians...and the human garbage of the ACLU...[xx(]