Boccieri Protects Rights of Mourning Family's of Fallen Soliders

U.S. Congressman John Boccieri (OH-16) introduced legislation with Republican Duncan Hunter to protect the privacy of mourning families burying their loved ones. In recent years the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas has protested military funerals, claiming the deaths of American soldiers is God's retribution for American acceptance of homosexuality. Boccieri believes that the right to free speech ends where the right to privacy begins. While hate speech is Constitutional, mandating protesters remain 300 feet away from funerals would fall in line with previous Supreme Court rulings.

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[KevinKennedy214]

The problem is that we don't have well defined property rights. If we have public sidewalks, public roads, etc... the federal government has no authority under the Constitution to stop protestors. Now, if you had well defined property rights then this issue wouldn't exist. The protestors would have no right to protest these grieving families on somebody else's property.

[DavidLynch007]

They stood where the police told them to stand.