Protesters at Iowa funerals must now stay 1,000 feet away

[Omaha Steve]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Members of the Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church are known for condemning homosexuality and contending that natural disasters, terrorist attacks and the deaths of U.S. soldiers are the result of God’s wrath over the United States’ acceptance of homosexuality.


http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/protesters-at-iowa-funerals-must-now-stay-feet-away/article_b93a6fa6-1e29-590b-8fab-60b31fbc7842.html

POSTED: FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015 11:45 PM
By Andrew J. Nelson / World-Herald staff writer

Protesters will have to keep a greater distance from grieving families at funerals under a bill signed Friday by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad.

The measure, House File 558, unanimously passed both houses of the Iowa Legislature.

“The family goes through enough grief,” Branstad said in an interview Friday after he signed the bill.

“They shouldn’t be confronted with having protesters in their face. ... I think having this kind of a buffer is certainly the kind of protection the family needs in this difficult time.”

FULL story at link.

[NaturalHigh]

1. Note to nuts: God doesn't hate anybody.

[shenmue]

3. Yep.

1 John 4:8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love.

[NaturalHigh]

4. That's a good verse for everyone.

The world would be a better place if more people took heed of that verse.

[shenmue]

5. True

[sendit]

2. Good law

These people just need to go away

[shenmue]

6. Yes