They shout vile things at the mourners and were taken to court and the case has worked its way up to the Supreme Court which is expected to rule next Spring.
Of course, all the pundits are weighing in on the issue of free speech and just how far one can go under the protection of the Constitution. One can't shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre, so critics of this church group claim such insenitivity and gross insults and singling out of bereaved families constitutes an infringement on the families' privacy.
Free speech advocates claim any restrictions on the church group would have a harrowing effect on all of us and our right to free speech.
What to do? Alas, one would like to think that responsible citizens could take a bar of soap to the potty mouths or perhaps publically whip good manners into them, in this way leaving the constitution out of it. But, we live in a world where common sense and corporeal punishment have been banished.
We have reached this sad point in the life of our former Republic because we have denigrated religion and removed God from public life. We have allowed a vocal and powerful minority to rob us of our Judeo Christian heritage. We have allowed it to happen and we will suffer the consequences, one of which is the loss of common courtesy and public manners which are all to visible in the untoward behavior of the church group in question.
We have forgotten what one of the founding fathers - John Adams - said about our former Rebublic and the Constitution on which that Rebublic rested.
"Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
We are going down the road to perdition and gross behavior and lack of common decency in the public square are just the beginning of the inevitable collapse of our civilization.
