Wednesday, March 9, 2011

First Amendment

Many people have their strong beliefs and views about the First Amendment: Freedom of Speech.  There are people who believe that they are fully entitled to their right and that they can say whatever they want and do it wherever they please.  There are also those individuals that believe in freedom of speech, yet they believe that there is an unspoken rule as to when certain remarks and protests are immoral depending on when or where it has been presented .  With that being said...does that mean that those individuals are somewhat contradicting themselves when they say that they believe in the First Amendment?
In the Westboro Baptist Church case, I will have to say that I am with the second group of individuals that i  had mentioned in the previous paragraph.  The members of the church presented an well unwanted protest outside of a funeral.  The protest was held directly across the street form the funeral.  I feel as if we are all entitled to our First Amendment, but I also feel like we should have a common courtesy to those that are having a difficult time grieving with the loss of a loved one.  If people were to de4cide to protest outside of one of my family member's funeral, my family would literally kill off the entire protest party.  All of the protesters will be shot dead. I do believe in freedom of speech, but i also believe that people should have a natural common courtesy
as to when and where to go about protesting.

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