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Originally Posted by filtherton
This soldier is hardly the first person to be mentioned by WBC by name. I think you could argue that their facebook page, while pretty fucked up, is the expression of a political opinion. It is political and not personal because they have pretty consistently spread the same message regardless of the people involved- just because it is directed at a single person doesn't make it personal. They think that god kills soldiers because of teh gays, that is a political statement.
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We will just have to disagree on this. A facebook page essentially implying their son died because he was gay and God killed him for it is intensely personal...to his parents, which is why they sued for IIED.
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