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Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case
Jury Awards Father $11M in Funeral Case
Oct 31, 8:14 PM (ET)
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ
BALTIMORE (AP) - A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict Wednesday against a fundamentalist Kansas church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality.
Albert Snyder of York, Pa., sued the Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified damages after members demonstrated at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq.
The federal jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress.
Snyder's attorney, Craig Trebilcock, had urged jurors to determine an amount "that says don't do this in Maryland again. Do not bring your circus of hate to Maryland again."
The defense said it planned to appeal, and one of the church's leaders, Shirley Phelps-Roper, said the members would continue to picket military funerals.
"Absolutely; don't you understand this was an act in futility?" Phelps-Roper said.
Church members routinely picket funerals of military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, carrying signs such as "Thank God for dead soldiers" and "God hates fags."
Snyder claimed the protests intruded upon what should have been a private ceremony and sullied his memory of the event.
The church members testified they are following their religious beliefs by spreading the message that soldiers are dying because the nation is too tolerant of homosexuality.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071101/D8SKHLJG1.html
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RU kidding me? they picket soldiers funerals "out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for the nation's tolerance of homosexuality."?
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I am not kidding, I hope the father gets their church and raises pigs in it.
Bush doubled the debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion.
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Bush asked for and signed for the TARP money.
The Republican senate leader backed Bush on this.
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Just turn it into a gay bar. It'd be all the rage.
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