The Price We Pay For Freedom Is High

The Westboro Baptist Church is coming to town. These horrible people delight in staging “protests” at the funerals of American soldiers. These demonstrations feature picket signs with such slogans as “God Hates Fags,” “You’re Going to Hell” and “God Loves Dead Soldiers.”

They are coming to picket at the funeral of U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Christopher Schumann, 24, who was killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday when his Humvee ran over a mine.

The United States Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, ruled this March that members of the renegade Westboro Baptist Church have a constitutionally protected right to protest military funerals even though their demonstrations are widely despised and deplored.

We have to allow them to come here and speak their filth. It is the price we sometimes have to pay for the Freedoms we enjoy, and that Jordan Schumann gave his life to protect.

We don’t have to like it.