Common decency sides with restricting protests at military funerals

I couldn't agree more...

I’m struck by the irony that this courageous soldier, and many others, died in part to protect our right to free speech, and it is that same right that allows these protesters to use a bullhorn to yell such putrid and incendiary things at a grieving family when they are the most vulnerable.

It is because of free speech that I am able to write this commentary. It is the right to free speech that allows the Ku Klux Klan to speak in the town square. That is the intellectual side of the argument.

But my heart says that, given common human decency — morals and ethics — I want to deny members of this “church” the ability to speak such unenlightened rhetoric or, at the very least, to put such restrictions upon them as to render them ineffectual at achieving whatever ill-conceived victory they might imagine.

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