Fred Phelps' Daughter Fights for Her Right to Stomp On the Flag

For once, those Westboro Baptist fucks are right about something.

She's absolutely right about the flag desecration issue at least. It's curious that even after Texas v. Johnson, which 20 years ago held that anti-flag desecration laws violate the First Amendment, that the Nebraska prosecutors still decided to tack on the charge. Perhaps he thought that with the Court today that he had a shot at un-stare decisis-ing that opinion. Or he was just looking for leverage. Regardless, that charge should be tossed.

Hat tip: Trevor

All I could see on the board was "Fred Phelps' Daughter Fights For Her Right to" and I was praying that the rest of the headline was "Eat Some Pussy". Just because that is the only thing that would lead me to believe in a kind, loving god.

Or at least one with a sense of humor.

I wish I could say that this was far-fetched.

Yeah, it's possible. At minimum, I think it's a ploy to attempt to re-re-re-re-open the Flag Burning issue.

I agree with you there.

It's my understanding that a lot of states already have flag-desecration laws on the books against the possibility that an amendment is eventually passed or, as may happen with a Supreme Court stocked with pseudocompetent reactionary extremists, the laws somehow pass judicial review.

It's not inconceivable to me that this Court might declare that flag-burning is an issue best left to states, though I'd be hard put to imagine their logic in such a decision.

Well, if nothing else, we know they have absolutely zero respect for precedent. So nothing is out of the question.

Exactly.

I'd like to petition my right to fuck the entire Phelps family with a knife.

Regarding the actual topic, how many times does this whole desecrating the flag issue have to come up before people quit getting sand in their vagina about it? Burning flags, saying "nigger," calling your girlfriend a cunt and making 9-11 jokes only have as much power as the offended give it. The fact that a Phelps hatchling is doing it should be a prime example that flag desecration is a "hey look at me, I'm so controversial" move.

Freedom is a vague word, and it means different things to different people. A lot of conservatives seem to have little understanding of or support for it as a political or sociocultural concept, and think of it pretty much only in socioeconomic terms.

Because the Phelpses pulling this shit all the time is one thing, but continuing to indoctrinate their children with illogical hatred just to provoke lawsuits should qualify as corrupting a minor and negligence. Try not to shed any baby crocodile tears for a family of sociopaths.

Granted, but they're reknowned for very disruptive displays of increasingly questionable legality. If what this "church" does crosses that line while encouraging their young to join in, that qualifies as what the charges allege.

Those Westboro Baptist people undoubtedly need a good kicking for many reasons, but I don't understand why people are offended by burning the flag, it's just another form of protest.

I'm a patriot and I love Britain, but honestly, do what you like to the Union Jack, fuck if I care. To ban flag burning is to put too much emphasis on the actual piece of material and not enough emphasis on what its supposed to represent - freedom of speech, liberty and progress.

No! Don't burn flags! Jesus is in those flags!

They're trying to incite violence and sue people that attack or otherwise silence them. The more they up the ante to get a reaction, the closer to the limit of legality they get. This is fair grounds for Child Protective Services to inspect a child's well-being in New Jersey, but I can't speak for the midwest. It's also fair to say that daughter Phelps might've picked up father Fred's penchant for beating his wife and children, which would be means for immediate substantiation and removal of the child.

It'll be worth it to wind up in hell just to watch Falwell and Phelps buttsecks each other for all eternity while demons throw bologna at them.

I'm not aware of any evidence that "god hates fags" and would resultantly cause any remotely unpleasant thing that happens on this planet because he hates queers so much.