Please do not attack me, I am not planning a protest or a funeral. I just want to see other peoples veiw on this topic.
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It is their right to protest. Part of the freedom of speech package. America is a free country and it will stay that way.
Protest and any funeral is disgusting. Especially a military funeral!
I think it’s one of the most disgusting things i’ve ever heard of. And it should be completely justified if a family member of the fallen soldier at a funeral mows down the protesters. It makes me sick.
they are disgraceful….
i understand the right to protest…and if you feel the war is unjust…protest to your heart’s desire….
but a family is grieving and it is NOT the time or the place to air your political views… those who do it are not only sniveling cowards… but are without heart and soul…
I believe the courts have weighed in on this. A civil liability award to a family of a fallen soldier to the tune of some 20 million dollars. Protest at your own risk.
Surely the relatives of the deceased should be asked if they want a protest (on some occasions they might). If not, disperse the protesters with gunfire.
It is a totally inappropriate place to protest the war.
Protest anywhere but funerals. It is the only closure for the family, Why ruin the moment with opinions of losers?
I feel that it is not the time and seems disrespectful to me.
Tacky, tacky, tacky. And a terrible intrusion into what should be the family and friends private time to mourn.
Protesting is a right but there is also a right time and a right place for everything. I think it would be very disrespectful and distasteful.
Ok, I personally feel its digusting, however, we do have the right to assembly in this country.
I think what Phelps and his family does tarnishes the name of good Christian families out there.
There is a difference between protesting on private and public property. They should not be allowed to protest on private cemetery grounds unless the owners agree to it.
I don’t see how someones death and funeral have any relation to something protestable. I mean, for instance, you are protesting the war, then how does protesting the funeral of someone who volunteered knowing that their job would be to fight and possibly die for their country help make your point?
This causes more suffering. Instead of hurting families of those who have lost loved ones, these protesters should be going and protesting corporations with interest in oil fields in Iraq and the middle east.
This protest could be viewed as treason in a lot of other nations. Honor the dead, do not make it worse.
well although i do realize that they are just practicing their 1st amendment rights however i feel that what those heartless pieces of sh*t dont realize is the person who’s funeral they are disgracing died after swearing an oath to protect that right from any enemy. In my opinion the family and loved ones of the dead soldier should be able without penalty to kill each one of those protesters in whatever brutal method they wish. if they don’t want to id do it for free.
I think they are the lowest form of life on the planet.
I consider them in violation of calling themselves human beings.
A funeral is NO place for protest PERIOD!
It is time for family and friends to say good bye to their love ones.
That so called church needs to be level in my book.
You can protest anywhere else not a funeral.
That is not their time it is the family time.
If we have to start making laws to regulate it so be it.
I think it should be common sense and part of being a human being to respect others.
I never thought it had to become law to drive that point home.
For those who think they have Free Speech.
I have no doubt our Founding Fathers would be shaking their heads.
I am glad to see people who stand in between families who are grieving and the morons who are protesting.
It pisses me off and it’s extremely disrespectful. If it was my buddy’s funeral, whoever is protesting will quickly realize it was a mistake. (Military Funeral)
I think protesting at any funeral is as disrespectful as any act can be.
I think its absolutely despicable and without any morally redeeming value bordering on the obscene. If it weren’t against the constitution I would recommend that such people be publicly flogged within an inch of their lives. And then forced to write a letter of apology to the families of the fallen soldiers, and then to every man and woman in the armed services for their dishonorable actions.
Protesting at a funeral especially a military funeral is the ultimate of insults. There is absolutely no honor in it and no good can ever come of it and it should be illegal. These people may have the right to protest but no right is absolute.
If it were my husband’s funeral, i would use the protesters as an outlet for my grief by beating the sht out of them. How disrespectful! Maybe we should all show up at their mother’s funerals and make a scene-would THAT be okay?
Recoil is what I would feel if it were one of my family members
Since they wanted to go to a funeral, I think we should line them up and make the funeral their own personal one.
no disparagement to you…..
it is a damn shame that these men and women have to get up at 5 am and force themselves to exercise in the rain and snow and mud get shot at yelled at and even beat up if this S ierra H otel I ndigo T ango went on at your work place you would whine to the union that is un fair boo hoo and now we suddenly need someone to go beat up a bully that we ourselves as civilians are not trained to do and we ask these folks to rescue us in times of disaster
and now at the end of their tiring day or life as it is the question we have to piss on the ceremony that is intended to honor and thank them
F oxtrot U niform C harlie K ilo no people should not protest at ANY funeral military especially
i apologize for my language but its a valid question and one that brings out the devil in me because most of my family both sides has or have members in the military
No one should protest at a funeral.There is a time and place for that.Have respect for the family.
Between the time that Congress adopted the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy concerning homosexuals in the military services, there were about 7,000-plus active duty members who died before the attack on America of September 11, 2001. Members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Wichita, Kansas did not protest at any of the funerals of those deceased soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen. They have only protested at the services for those who have died since the beginning of the Global War On Terrorism.
This tells me that their chief grievance of America suffering the deaths of its service members because of our policy regarding homosexuals is an out and out fraud! Their protest is political. Not religious. Because of that they should be stripped of their non-profit status under the Internal Revenue Code and taxed into oblivion!
Not the place or the time to protest….if you do, prepare to have the crap beaten out of you if I am there…..
McKinly2 – well said….bravo
It’s disgusting and rude. If you are going to protest, go stand outside the Whitehouse, or any other political place. Do not protest to the people who have no choice in where they go. I don’t know a single serviceman who said, “Hey, I’m bored. Can you start a war so I can get deployed and possibly die?” Idiots like that need to realize that the military doesn’t have a choice and their families should be able to mourn and bury their loved one without ignorant jackasses giving them a hard time.
People need to learn how to walk a mile in the shoes of another. You can never understand what a person is going through unless you become them. It’s time to learn to have a little respect for people who are going through one of the hardest moments in their life.
All Funeral Protests are Dispicable, that isnt free speech by any means. Frankly I hope whomever protests at a funeral gets beaten severely by the Mourners.
There is a Time and place for protests, at a Persons funeral with the Family Grieving isnt the time nor place.
Oh, and “King Felix” needs to get a Clue, because he has no idea in life.
No one it does not matter how influential he is in the community should protest a funeral. The mentality of the ones that do is highly questionable. They want to get their point across no matter who it hurts. I think that if it is a military funeral the ones protesting should be sent to the combat zone. Given a weapon with so many rounds and left in a hostile area by themselves. Maybe a week or two later check on them and see if they are still alive. If not too bad—- maybe no one will protest at their funeral.
i do not think that it should be allowed at all.these people are sick in my book to do such a thing .
it’s awful, espically at a military funueral. Those soldiers died giving them the freedom to protest at their funeral.