[Vision2020] Topeka Church To Pay Marine Funeral Costs

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Fri Apr 13 16:34:58 PDT 2007


>From KAKE-TV (Topeka, Kansas) at:

http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/4892916.html?source=enews&c=y

Mark this one up for the good guys.

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Topeka Church To Pay Marine Funeral Costs
Reporter: Associated Press

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BALTIMORE (AP) -- A federal judge in Baltimore is ordering Topeka's Westboro
Baptist Church to pay more than $3,000 in costs related to the funeral of a
Marine the group picketed.

Albert Snyder of York, Pennsylvania, is suing because church
members demonstrated at the funeral of his son, Lance Corporal
Matthew Snyder. Church members also posted pictures of the protest
on their Web site.
 
 
Corporal Snyder was killed in Iraq in March.

The lawsuit was filed in June. It says church members violated
the family's right to privacy and defamed the Marine and his family
at the funeral and on the church's Web site.

Court documents say the church has 30 days to make the payment
to Snyder.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)




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