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...March 8, the Supreme Court agreed to consider whether certain types of offensive protests are guaranteed First Amendment protection. A case to be argued this fall, Snyder v. Phelps, involves the fiercely anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kans., members of which wave signs that read "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" at military funerals. The group and its leader, Pastor Fred Phelps, believe that U.S. troops die in combat because America condones homosexuality. Albert Snyder, the father of a Marine killed in Iraq in 2006 whose funeral was protested by Westboro parishioners, sued the group for inflicting intentional emotional...
Grade deflation that stays true to its word, the return of the Westboro Baptists, and a few more scintillating tidbits from around the Ancient Eight (and some other schools...
Remember when the Westboro Baptists paid Cambridge a visit last spring? Well, they're back in action—only this time on the West Coast. Just as at Harvard, students at Stanford banded together yesterday to drown out the cries of the Westboro protestors denouncing gays, Jews, and just about everything else under the sun. Here are some choice photos from The Stanford Review of the event, which looked as though it succeded in uniting the Stanford community more than anything else...
...instance, when members of the Westboro Baptist Church appeared in Cambridge last month, almost 400 protestors greeted them. The students who confronted the WBC had the best of intentions: They meant to show their opposition to a despicable group. Nevertheless, the WBC fed off the publicity like a cancer. It should have been ignored. But these students’ desire to show that they were better than these bigots proved too powerful to ignore...
...counter-protest, which was organized by the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard College Queer Student and Allies, included a Phelps-a-thon fundraiser—named after Westboro leader Fred Phelps—which raised over $1000 for Cambridge Cares About AIDS...