Albert Snyder v. Fred Phelps On March 3, 2006, Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder died in Iraq in the line of duty. The funeral was put on by his father, Al Snyder, and held in Synder’s hometown, Westminister, Maryland. The day of the funeral, Fred Phelps, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas, decided to travel with six of his followers and fellow members of Westboro Baptist Church to picket the event. This group has attended many military funerals across the country, trying to spread their views. The Westboro Baptist Church believes that all military personnel are being punished by being killed because the military tolerates homosexuality.
In 1998, CNN News featured a story that was a bit unusual. Westboro Baptist Church, located in Topeka, Kansas, was brought into the media spotlight by public interest in something a bit unusual: Protesting a funeral. The congregation of Westboro Baptist gathered to picket the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a young man from Wyoming who was beaten to death by two other men because of his homosexuality. Since then, the church has become well known for all of their controversial protests around the united states. The church estimates that WBC has conducted over 30,000 pickets, in all 50 states, in over 500 cities and towns.
At a memorial service Sunday evening, President Obama will join the loved ones of the 12 people killed in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard in last week. “I'll be meeting in mourning with families in this city who now know the same unspeakable grief of families in Newtown and Aurora and Tucson and Chicago and New Orleans and all across the country, people whose loved ones were torn from them without headlines sometimes or public outcry," Mr. Obama said in a keynote speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Saturday night. Obama also acknowledged his failure to get new gun-control legislation passed. “That means we've got to get back up and go back at it, because as long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as
Shooting of Travon Martin Florida state is charging Zimmerman with second degree murder with an affidavit of probable cause (Zimmerman had profiled Martin) Travonne martin a seventeen year old was fatally shot in an altercation with George Zimmerman On Feb. 26 2012. According to George Zimmerman, he was on his way home from the store when he observed a young man walking in the rain between townhomes. George Z then called police to report the incident, stating that he looked suspicious. (He never made a comment pertaining to martin’s race). Zimmerman claims that the young man started running and that he got out of his vehicle a pursued him ( Not to capture him but to ascertain in what direction he was headed.)
90 Minutes in Heaven Chapter one: The Accident January 18, 1989 the day that the main event happened. On that day Don Piper was hit by a truck that swerved into his lane. The Paramedics arrived and declared him dead. He was covered by a tarp and remained there for 90 minutes in heaven. Then a preacher and his wife that was at the conference was way back in the traffic and they walked ½ a mile and he went to the police officer and he wanted to go pray for the dead man so he went to the car and got through the trunk and prayed and sang What a Friend we Have in Jesus and Don Piper started singing and he went and got the paramedics and they took him to the Hospitle.
The church membership consists of approximately sixty to seventy members, about fifty of whom are related by blood to Phelps. The Phelpses and other church members practice a very fundamentalist and rudimentary religious faith. They believe that God hates homosexuals and punishes America for its tolerance of homosexuality by killing American soldiers. The
In 1965 John Tinker made the decision that he and others from his school would wear black armbands to their school in Des Moines, Iowa in protest of the ongoing Vietnam war. The armbands, which were plain besides a white peace symbol, were meant to signify the teenagers support of the Christmas truce called for by Robert F Kennedy as well as the end of the United States involvement in the Vietnam war. The reason of the students opposition was the high amount of United States soldiers that were killed and wounded in a war that many deemed unnecessary. Principals at the Des Moines schools came together to make the decision that any students that refused to remove the armbands in school would be suspended, so when Tinker was forced to leave school because he would not remove the armband many said this was a violation of his first and fourteenth amendment rights. Reasons given to these suspensions was that the school system did not allow for students to wear armbands in school.
Oliver Cromwell HERO OR VILLAIN In my opinion Oliver Cromwell was a villain because of the mass murders he had committed. He had killed over 3,000 people in Drogheda and over 4,000 all together while under the title Lord Protector I believe he was against the belief and rituals of the Catholic faith. TheChurch of England had already been created by Elizabeth for Catholics and Protestants and the majority of both religions had agreed that they would worship under Church of England guidelines, so there was no need for Oliver Cromwell to create a Protestant based faith country. Also he had banned all types of enjoyment like dancing, eating on Christmas, football, and many more. A lot of people hold him responsible for the execution of King Charles I even though there were 59 Parliament lords who signed for the execution of King Charles I.
Final Project Debate project Amber Stevens Author Note This paper prepared for Philosophy 1C Snyder vs. Phelps According to Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institutes website the case of Snyder vs. Phelps is about a group of protesters that belong to the Westboro Baptist Church who protest at the funerals of fallen military soldiers, this case is regards to the protest at the funeral of Matthew Snyder. The group of protesters was led by Fred Phelps who is the founder of the Westboro Church; they were at Mathew Snyder’s funeral protesting against homosexuality in the military and the open acceptance of homosexuality in general across the United States. While they were there, they held signs saying, “Thank GOD for dead soldiers,” and “God hates you.” The father of Matthew Snyder had sued the protesters of Westboro Baptist Church in court for emotional distress, intrusion, and civil conspiracy. The Supreme Court awarded the Snyder family several millions of dollars, but Phelps challenged the ruling and then the court made Snyder pay Phelps court fees of 16,000. The Supreme Court ended up ruling that Phelps and his protesters were cleared and covered by the first amendment right (“Snyder vs. Phelps”).
29 January 2013 In Memory of a Fallen Soldier On a hot Monday morning in June, in Fort Hood, Texas, where I was stationed, I was standing in formation listening to our First Sergeant speak. He announced that our platoon was being tasked to participate in the funeral detail of a fallen soldier. It was scorching hot while standing, that my camouflaged uniform was drenched in sweat. After being dismissed, we were assigned our individual responsibilities in the funeral. This detail has three parts to it: the pall-bearer, firing squad, and the bugler.