Downside Of Freedom Of Speech

In one of the most weird news in recent times, a dead soldier's father must pay the organizer who staged an anti-gay protest at his son's funeral.

Waving signs that read "Matt is in Hell" and "America is damned," among others, they protested with the funeral under way. Based in Kansas, Phelps often organizes anti-gay protests outside military funerals saying that the person's death was due to the fact that the United States accepts homosexuality.

United States Of America is supposed to be one of the most developed nations but the constitution provides all sorts of defense for freedom of speech. It is extremely absurd to have staged such an obscene protest completely insensitive to the feelings of the family who lost their son. Fred Phelps then had the audacity to appeal against the ruling of the court and the court took up the case and asked Snyder to pay the protesters.

So much for humanity and justice ...