So, it's happened: The Supreme Court says that crazy homophobes have rights, too.
As you may recall from our previous posts, we cats aren't exactly surprised. We always thought that it would be better to go after the Westboro Baptist "Church's" tax exemption than to try to shut them up. This is America, after all — and an 8-zip Supreme Court decision is pretty decisive.
However, not being lawyers, we cats don't really understand why hatemongering is protected speech. Perhaps the folks over at the Southern Poverty Law Center can explain it to us? It must have something to do with whether the discourse in question incites violence or mayhem (bereaved military families, this might be your cue). But as repugnant as the Westboro scumbuckets are, we guess it's better to err on the side of freedom of expression. Surely many members of the high court struggled with this as well.
The silver lining? Since the Westboro terrorists have the poor judgment to target military families, Americans who wouldn't otherwise have heard of them (or who might not even care about gay rights) now can be informed and repulsed. For them, we cats suggest the tactics adopted by the clever gentleman pictured above. Sometimes, we really are proud of our country.
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