{"id":18290,"date":"2010-03-30T10:59:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18290"},"modified":"2010-03-30T14:57:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T19:57:57","slug":"those-westboro-fags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18290","title":{"rendered":"Those Westboro fags (contribution link added)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know a bunch of you have already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eveningsun.com\/localnews\/ci_14780416\">read this story<\/a> about Albert Snyder, the father of a Marine who lost his life in Iraq and this legal battle against the Westboro Baptist Church of Fred Phelps. I know you&#8217;ve read it because you&#8217;ve been sending me links.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Snyder won his case against the Westboro fags but was overturned on appeal. Then he decided to appeal to the Supreme Court and the Fourth District Court, which ruled against him, ordered Mr. Snyder to pay the Westboro fags&#8217;s legal expenses related to the Supreme Court case filing &#8211; about 16 grand while the USSC has agreed to hear the case.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t write about this before now because I&#8217;d heard that Blackfive was working behind the scenes to get the complete story.<\/p>\n<p>But, while I was waiting for Blackfive, some guy named MOTHAX at The <a href=\"http:\/\/burnpit.legion.org\/2010\/03\/put-yourself-in-his-dad%E2%80%99s-shoes\/\">American Legion&#8217;s Burn Pit<\/a> got into the fray this morning and convinced the Legion&#8217;s powers to help Mr. Snyder pay those unjust expenses.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for a link to the fund.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.members.legion.org\/CGI-BIN\/lansaweb?webapp=TALFUNDR+webrtn=WR_donorinfo+ml=LANSA:XHTML+part=tal+lang=ENG+f(trantype)=GSD\">Here&#8217;s the link for contributions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a bunch of you have already read this story about Albert Snyder, the father &hellip; <a title=\"Those Westboro fags (contribution link added)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18290\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Those Westboro fags (contribution link added)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,87,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff","category-general-whackos","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}