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Gov. Quinn signs off on ‘Let Them Rest in Peace Act’

Chicago Tribune

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August 14, 2011

Members of an anti-gay fundamentalist group, Westboro Baptist Church, known for their protests of military funerals, will have to stay a bit farther away from such services under a measure Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law Sunday as the Illinois State Fair observed its Veterans Day.
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  1. Tom Kissner said,

    on August 18th, 2011 at 2:09 pm

    GOOD!! Even though the courts have determined that interrupting the privacy and sanctity of funerals of those heroic enough to have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their country is a form of freedom of speech, almost everyone is disgusted by this small group pushing their “one issue agenda”. It can’t be a violation of their right to freedom of speech to make them stand farther away from the funeral or burial. Now if other states would enact the same law…

  2. Sharyn St Clair said,

    on August 21st, 2011 at 8:58 am

    I am strongly pro freedom of speech and generally anti war. However, it is a pointless cruelty to essentially “picket” a veteran’s funeral.

    We seemed to have learned a lesson from the Vietnam war: that you can protest the war while recognizing the valor of the soldiers.

    I am comforted by a law that limits protesters’ proximity to a funeral; but, how much further back must they be? I don’t think that the bereaved should have to face a gauntlet of protesters anywhere near a funeral site.

    In today’s rich media frenzy environment, I’m confident that the protests would be well covered on the other side of town .

  3. Teresa Hemingway said,

    on September 3rd, 2011 at 12:53 am

    Westboro picketers are coming to VT hurricane disaster to picket on 9/5.

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