Its the America that gives everyone the freedom of thought and speech...even to the lowest turd. Really wouldn't have it any other way.
Yes.
It is not popular speech that needs the protection of the Constitution, it is the unpopular. That being said,
The W.B.C. has been rude, disrespectful, and are proven to be the worst sort of media whores, the type that only "put on the show" when the cameras are running.
Do they deserve physical violence, or even death threats? Because they spout a more virulent form of religion?
Where does it end?
Fred Phelps is a disbarred attourney, but with his daughter and several other family members, they have no shortage of lawyers.
They have it figured out to the very edge of the law, just how far they can go. They want physical attacks. They want your scorn, it feeds their conviction that, they, and they alone, know what god wants.
Never forget that it is not just a publicity stunt, they really believe this stuff.
Youtube has many videos of people trying to discourage the W.B.C. with varing degrees of effectiveness.
The only thing that seems to work is the tactic of flooding their space with overwhelming numbers of people carring signs that are very close in appearance to theirs. Differing in the wording, of course.