[fyrnymph]

Benzgirl, you are comparing apples to oranges.

Picketing a private funeral - reprehensible.They are invading a function which is religious and private.

Pulling up white crosses put up as a peaceful protest against abortion - unless the crosses were put up on public land or your yard (!), you are infringing on their protest - perhaps trespassing. It would be the same thing if they tore a pro-abortion sign down from your property - I'd say they were wrong, too.

I am perplexed by those who want to destroy the message of their opponents. Refute it, yes - but silence it? That's not the American way!

Free speech means even awful people can say what they want, but they can't say it in a way that disrupts or disturbs others' rights. As reprehensible as the group's message is, they must have the right to say it. Just not at funerals.

And we have the right to say we find them disgraceful. Thank goodness justice was done.