{"id":21669,"date":"2010-12-29T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21669"},"modified":"2010-12-29T14:09:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T18:09:24","slug":"maine-teen-proposes-bill-to-stop-westboro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21669","title":{"rendered":"Maine teen proposes bill to stop Westboro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Parker, a teen from Maine got mad at the Westboro &#8220;Baptist&#8221; Church fags, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/story\/Midcoast\/Teens-bill-to-ban-protesters-from-funerals-gets-attention-from-controversial-church,162479?ref=mostReadBox\">mad enough to try and do something<\/a> about them;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The student is working on a plan to propose federal legislation to ban all protests at military funerals. Three federal laws and laws in at least 40 states, including Maine, limit protests near military funerals, but they do not prevent them. The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments against the church\u2019s actions and is expected to rule on it next year.<\/p>\n<p>Parker has contacted U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud, who have agreed to listen to the idea, according to spokesmen in their offices.He also has drawn attention from Westboro Baptist Church, which in a Dec. 21 e-mail stated its intent to picket Parker\u2019s Jan. 5 history class presentation on the proposed legislation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know he&#8217;s probably doomed from the beginning, but hey, he&#8217;s done more than you and I have done.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parker said he has heard the First Amendment arguments, but said the Westboro Baptist Church\u2019s actions are harassing hate speech, which is not protected by the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>According to [Shirley] Phelps-Roper, Parker cannot stop them with his proposed legislation. The existing limits have done little to sway the church\u2019s efforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish him all the luck in the world, but it&#8217;s a tough fight against evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Parker, a teen from Maine got mad at the Westboro &#8220;Baptist&#8221; Church fags, mad enough &hellip; <a title=\"Maine teen proposes bill to stop Westboro\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21669\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maine teen proposes bill to stop Westboro<\/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":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-whackos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669","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=21669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}