Phelps has certainly met his match

[malaise]

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/article_f6572541-3612-5abf-9bf5-8535641529be.html
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Mourners at the funeral of Christina-Taylor Green were greeted by more than a thousand sympathizers who lined North Shannon Road for a quarter-mile south of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church.

They arrived on nearly 200 motorcycles, on foot and on shuttle buses from area parking lots, some prompted into action by the anticipated presence of a group from Kansas that protests funerals of veterans and gay people. The group ended up not showing.

Many of the sympathizers who showed up wore white and stood quietly on either side of Shannon Road. Among them were 18 "angels" with giant wings made from plastic pipe and bedsheets, who stood side by side in silence less than a block from the church for an hour and a half.

Behind them, graffiti on a subdivision's block wall read: "Christina" and "Stop the Hate."
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[proud2BlibKansan]

1. The Phelps family agreed not to be there

They are going to be on a Canadian radio show instead.

[madokie]

3. Arizona's legislators hastily passed a law making it illegal for them to protest

and the evil brewer actually signed it into law to go into effect immediately. this happened a day or two before the funeral.

[DemoTex]

5. That might be the answer to stopping the WBC: ad hoc laws/ordinances.

States or local jurisdictions could pass the laws or local ordinances before funerals that the Phelps clan announce that they will disrupt. Then the disruption is blocked (they are arrested or sent away). So what if the laws/ordinances are overturned by courts or charges dropped? The point is to just keep them away.

[littlewolf]

6. because then the Philips sue because of a denial of a constitutional right

and win big money damages .... and they STILL get press time .... win win for Fred ...
I don't know what the solution is .... I like the idea that happened in AZ (and elsewhere ...)
human blockade ....

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. That has zero impact on the Phelps family

They don't care if it's legal or not.

[malaise]

4. Phelps knew that they would have faced some new

Arizona law.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. There are similar laws in other states

Never stopped them before. Don't know why it would now.

[CBHagman]

2. Firefighters and soldiers and bikers.

The subject line says it all.

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/article_f6572541-3612-5abf-9bf5-8535641529be.html

In the church parking lot, several firefighters and soldiers stood between two fire-ladder trucks, to hoist the 9/11 Flag at the church. The flag weighs 45 pounds.

The "New York Says Thank You Foundation" flew the flag to Tucson Wednesday to honor Christina-Taylor, 9, who was among six killed in Saturday's shooting at a northwest-side Safeway. She was born on Sept. 11, 2001.

The flag was flying at 90 West Street in New York when the twin towers went down. It is the same tattered flag seen in the iconic photo of ground zero.

(SNIP)

On Thursday, families holding hands, cowboy types in boots and hats, bikers in Hells Angels and Huns jackets, teens, seniors and others were there - most for the same reason: to support the Green family.