Supreme Court’s decision of the Westboro Church Protest creates a question of morality

As a former US Marine, it pisses me off that a group of idiots are allowed to go to places uninvited and demean the ultimate sacrifice of any one of my fallen comrades.  To don that uniform and be willing to sacrifice your very existence for this nation regardless whether you spent time in combat or not is extraordinary and needs to be honored.  To leave this world after having offered yourself to this nation is the ultimate sacrifice and it should be so in anyone’s book.

Having said that I also have to say as a former US Marine, we all have to applaud the courage of those Supreme Court Justices who did not allow personal feelings to go into the true interpretation of the law.  A law that I and my fellow service members offer our lives to protect each and everyday.  While I do not particularly care for the outcome, I still must honor their decision as I pray that others will honor mine.   According to an article written by Associated Press Mark Sherman titled  Supreme Court: Anti-gay funeral picketers allowed, the one statement places in focus my honest take of this subject.  It reported that “The 8-1 decision in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., was the latest in a line of court rulings that, as Chief Justice John Roberts said in his opinion for the court, protects "even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate."  This point vialdates the stance of supporting the “Rule of Law” and equal justice under the law, even though as this article further states Justice Samuel Alito being the one in the decision did put it plainly and in a very unarguable way when he said that "Our profound national commitment to free and open debate is not a license for the vicious verbal assault that occurred in this case,"

Now comes the question that only those from the Westboro Church can answer as well as those who think in the same vien as them.  The questions is knowing that you have a legal right to protest openly, does that also give you the moral right to do so?  The answer to that question should be an emphatic “no” and if it is not then there are other questions that should follow.  There should be a question of are they truly believer of God or just a group of people pushing their own agenda?  Jesus asked us to accept each others as they are, not to judge and believe that we are all brothers and sisters in his eyes.  If they are choosing not to heed Jesus’ words, then to whom are they listening to?  A mere mortal standing in front of a podium claiming a title of Pastor or Reverenent?  For anyone or any group to claim to be Christian, yet acts to force their beliefs upon oiters can also be labeled as anti-religionous.  Since the words first appeared in a book we called the Bible, they have never changed and because of that no one should be allowed to reconstruct them to fit their own agenda.  An open heart will receive Jesus but only open eyes will see him.