Okay, I'm pretty sure I read the entirety of the posts here, but if I bring something back up I apologize. My first question is...
WTF is wrong with you people?
I enlisted, quite of my own accord, in the US Army. I have a better paying civilian job, I have no problematic issues in my life that drove me to the military. I enlisted because I felt it was my duty.
If someone thinks I should die for enlisting, that's fine. If they want to wave a sign on main street saying "Xepherys supports fags because he fights overseas", that's fine. But there are distinct moral lines drawn into even our rights. Human rights are generally defined as those "inalienable" rights that all men and women should have, such that their right do not DIRECTLY infringe on the rights of others.
An extreme example... you can protest abortion. You can protest in front of abortion clinics. You cannot beat a woman walking into the clinic to get an abortion. You cannot burn the clinic down. You cannot poison the woman. You cannot involuntarily rip the fetus from her womb and grow it in an incubator. See where I'm going with this?
If they had this protest downtown? Great! Even on the day of the funeral? Sure, why not! At the fucking cemetery with the family there? The ONLY purpose for this is to try to cause additional grief to the family. There is no other possible explanation. So, we have a god-given, inalienable right to purposefully cause grief to other humans? I'm pretty sure there was no intent implied in the Constitution or Bill of Rights. In fact...
"Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness"...
It makes me happy to scream at children. Can I go to a school playground and stand at the fence yelling obscenities at kids. Screaming at them? Why not? If I do not physically touch them, what am I doing wrong? I mean, I have rights too, right?
The "Founding Fathers" can only be assumed to have penned those documents with the understanding they would be viewed with some of amount of common sense, and likely common decency. Fred Phelps and his cronies seem to have very little of either (likely none of the latter).
At any rate, I support flag burning, I support activist and parades and protesting. I support, as I stated, your freedoms, so long as they do not step on the toes of my freedoms. Perhaps it's a shame the the founders of our country hadn't forecasted something like this and added a specific "Right to Peaceful Mourning". Seriously people? I just can't fucking believe that anyone in their right mind thinks that FP and his gang should have this "right". If you'd kindly all give me your addresses, I'll watch the papers for family deaths and be sure to be there at their funerals causing your families some grief.
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