Suit is More Than Money

Well, Fred Phelps (the Kansas bigot who never seems to be in Kansas) and his "church" finally got slammed in a 10 million dollar damage award. But, the marine's father says it ain't about the money. From the NYT:

BALTIMORE, Nov. 1 —After a year and a half of anger, grief and legal maneuvering, the father of a marine killed in Iraq has said the success of his suit against a fundamentalist sect that picketed his son’s funeral means more than the jury’s $10.9 million damage award on Tuesday.

“If I can take whatever they have and stop them, good,” said the father, Albert Snyder, 52, a salesman from York, Pa., whose son, Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, 20, was killed two months after arriving in Iraq in January 2006. “I was not motivated by money. I want to shut this church down, if you can call it a church. I call it a cult or a hate group. I sat in that courtroom for a week and a half and never once heard them say a good thing about God.”

He added that he doubted he would ever collect the award.

Mr. Snyder said he had decided to sue the leaders of the sect, the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., for invasion of privacy and inflicting emotional distress two months after its members demonstrated at his son’s funeral in March 2006 in Westminster, Md.

Read the whole thing.

But, I have a question; Just where did Phelps' "church" get that Million bucks in the first place? There is a lot more hate out there than we can imagine.

More later.

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