mourning is restricted JUST TO THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL? Some people/cultures mourn for weeks/months. Back in the 1800's here in the US, it was considered normal to mourn for AT LEAST a month
Try to follow along.
This particular right to privacy is tied to the funeral. You have a right to mourn in private during the funeral.
We are not talking about mourning in general, or anything else.
You have other rights that allow for your uninterrupted grief during the rest of your day (privacy at your home/private property, and the right to not be harassed).
but they can argue they weren't on the funeral grounds....Disrupting at the intersection halfway between the funeral home and grave site is no different than the intersection right off the graveyard.
And? Their intention was to cause emotional distress to the mourners.
It doesn't matter if they were 100 yards away with loud speakers, or 1 mile away with REALLY LOUD SPEAKERS.
Their intention was to interfere with the participants right to mourn their dead.
What about air space? Can I rent a plane and pull behind it, a sign that says "God killed your son because America supports gays"
Same thing applies. If you are going to interfere with the mourners rights, I would recommend against it.
How about Mars? How exactly would cyberspace interfere with the mourners rights to mourn?
My point is.... lines have to be established both ways... I'm allowed to protest... setting a 10 mile bubble from whatever arbitrary point opens up to stuff like I stated.... airspace, travel route, etc.
People aren't allowed to provoke violence with speech, the line is, provoking violence with speech. It doesn't matter where they do it, or how they do it.
The line here, is interfering with the mourners right to mourn their dead during the funeral.
"MLK, you can protest that Alabama won't allow this african-american child from going to an all white school all you want, you just can't do it at the school she wants to go to, you have to do it at the black school she's supposed to go to". That just doesn't cut it.
Umm... how is this relevant? What right to mourning would the school have?
IDK, encourage anyone who supports it to go by and honk and make noise as they drive by. See, there's the double standard... a popular view protest of a baby-killer marine would have people take them up on the offer if the event is well organized. We are again, now punishing unpopular protests over popular protest
So, your argument is: a website might violate their rights, by encouraging people to violate their rights?
The actual rights violation would be the honking (not that you could actually do anything about it).
so again I ask, at what point am I allowed to criticize JFK's presidency.... I'm sure one of his kids could argue "I'm still mourning my father's passing" and get me to stop if they didn't like what I was saying...
Again I ask, how are you mourning at a funeral over JFK?
I can create a protest parade down your street.... or at the corner your house is on and you can claim "MOURNING STILL" for how long. Mourning time is too arbitrary a period to limit. We STILL mourn John Lenin's death every year.
Again... (this gets redundant after awhile).
I'm not burying anyone at my house.
you haven't convinced me Westboro violated any rights. And unlike Right to free speech.... right to an agreeable mourning is not in the Bill of Rights
Unlike your right to free speech, your right to own property isn't in the Bill of Rights either.
Neither is your right to life. Neither is your right to custody of your children.
We can go all day on the rights that are more fundamental than free speech, but aren't included in the Bill of Rights.
on a side note... how did the Westboro protest of the highschool that someone mentioned on here go today? I am very interested in hearing about that.
See, this I have no issue with.
