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Westboro protester gets a faceful of Marine Corps pride outside the Supreme Court

By Dan Lamothe on October 8, 2010 Westboro Baptist Church

The Westboro Baptist Church’s showdown this week with Marine father Al Snyder in Supreme Court has been widely covered, including in a first-person account on this blog. However, a Battle Rattle reader pointed out an interesting thread that I had missed: One man’s quiet protest to the Westboro message. On Wednesday, dozens of Westboro protesters picketed outside the Supreme Court, with many of them carrying the same kind of signs used to protest outside the funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder in 2006. If you’ve been following along, you know the “Thank God For Dead Soldiers” drill. A Getty Images…

Inside one raw morning at the Supreme Court with the Westboro Baptist Church

By Dan Lamothe on October 7, 2010 Westboro Baptist Church

WASHINGTON — Should the Supreme Court make it all stop? At the base level, that’s the question that the nation’s highest court grappled with Wednesday, as Albert Snyder, the father of a dead Marine, squared off with one of the most notorious fringe religious groups in the U.S. The details are well known: The Westboro Baptist Church, of Topeka, Kan., protested outside the 2006 funeral of Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder in Westminster, Md., after he died in Iraq in a Humvee accident. They followed Maryland law, standing 1,000 feet away from the Catholic church where it was held. However, they infuriated hundreds of funeral…

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