A Good Reason to Bring Back Smoting

The supreme court ruled that protests at military funerals (and I assume this means any funeral) is speech protected by the first amendment. Sigh.

At the center of the case were those wack jobs who seem to think that turning what should be a somber time and surely a painful time for a family into a platform for expressing their true feelings of superiority over "homosexuals" and "godless" sorts is appropriate.

I'm pretty sure that it pained our conservative supreme court to issue this ruling. Yes, it is based on the law. Yes, we do love to cite our 1st amendment rights all the blooming time. But, it just seems so very wrong to exploit a funeral of all things to grab media attention for your own hateful motivations. I imagine across the country people see reports of protests/hatefulness at funerals and mutter "there oughta be a law."

I'm thinking that the intentional infliction of emotional harm on a family in mourning to make some extremist point is the sort of thing that ought to make you hell-bound. Which is why it would be really nice to see a lightening bolt come out of a blue sky and take care of this little problem for us.