{"id":30653,"date":"2012-10-17T07:40:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/are-funerals-a-significant-government-interest.html"},"modified":"2012-10-17T13:16:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T19:16:28","slug":"are-funerals-a-significant-government-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/are-funerals-a-significant-government-interest.html","title":{"rendered":"Are funerals a &quot;significant government interest&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will go toe to toe with anybody in my loathing of the Fred Phelps clan and the Westboro Baptist Church. And from an emotional standpoint, I sympathized deeply with anyone whose graveside grief has been disturbed by their repulsive protests.<\/p>\n<p>But that sympathy doesn&#39;t, IMO, warrant creating yet another exception to First Amendment rights, or ruling that such an exception &quot;serves a significant government interest&quot;. I have to side with the ACLU on this one.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.firstamendmentcenter.org\/full-8th-circuit-mo-town-can-limit-funeral-protests?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FirstAmendmentCenter+%28First+Amendment+Center%29'>Full 8th Circuit: Mo. town can limit funeral protests | First Amendment Center \u2013 news, commentary, analysis on free speech, press, religion, assembly, petition<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManchester\u2019s ordinance \u2018survives First Amendment scrutiny because it serves a significant government interest,\u2019 judge writes for court.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/N19HHgBiMxE' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will go toe to toe with anybody in my loathing of the Fred Phelps clan and the Westboro Baptist Church. And from an emotional standpoint, I sympathized deeply with anyone whose graveside grief has been disturbed by their repulsive protests. But that sympathy doesn&#39;t, IMO, warrant creating yet another exception to First Amendment rights, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/are-funerals-a-significant-government-interest.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are funerals a &quot;significant government interest&quot;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,133,9,27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-censorship","category-politics-law","category-religion","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43092,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/17\/scalia-says-if-he-has-to-listen-to-bad-music-you-have-to-listen-to-government-p.html","url_meta":{"origin":30653,"position":0},"title":"Scalia says If he has to listen to bad music, you have to listen to government p&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Jun-14 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Scalia says If he has to listen to bad music, you have to listen to government prayerOr something like that. 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