Reply #28: My point is that it is the same principle.

[Zynx]

A funeral is not intended to be a public event, but it just so happens that we need them to occur in areas where they are in plain sight. There is nothing political or public about a funeral and thus it is perfectly easy to legislate provisions to protect them from political protest by keeping protesters as far away as necessary as to keep the event safe from political protesters. Much more restrictive laws have been passed and upheld than this.

My basic point is that freedom of speech does not mean you have the freedom to say whatever you want, wherever you want. It NEVER has. There are restrictions and not even the most hard core legal scholar will tell you otherwise.