1.)A crime to do what?
Wouldn't protesting still be okay, since it's already not a crime?
2.)Even so, they could probably regroup or find some other loophole.
I mean the guy is a loving lawyer, i'm sure he's got some kind of plan.
1.) This is a quote from Wikipedia
A hate group is an organized group or movement that advocates and practices hatred, hostility, or violence towards members of a race, ethnicity, religion, gender, loveual orientation or other designated sector of society.
They fit under that category. Now, your referencing the whole "right to peacefully protest, free speech" etc. They aren't PEACEFULLY protesting. They hold up picket signs that say things along the lines of "GOD HATES cigaretteS" and they stand outside the funerals of these types of things.
These are children. Who died. Children who hadn't done anything wrong. At all. And they think that they're a sacrifice because Conn allows gay marriage? That's SLAUGHTER. Not sacrifice.
2.) True. They could.
While their all in jail, locked away.
What they DO in the past can still be held against them, and they can go to jail for that, as well as the intent-to-do-so. Just because the head-honcho is a lawyer, doesn't mean he's a GOOD lawyer. Would a good lawyer title his website
www.godhatescigarettes.com/?
Also, let's throw in his crime history;
United States
In 1994, Phelps was convicted for disorderly conduct for verbal harassment, and received two suspended 30-day jail sentences.[16][32] "
Phelps' 1995 conviction for assault and battery carried a five-year prison sentence, with a mandatory 18 months to be served before he became eligible for parole. Phelps fought to be allowed to remain free until his appeals process went through. Days away from being arrested and sent to prison, a judge ruled that Phelps had been denied a speedy trial and that he was not required to serve any time.[16][32]
United Kingdom
On February 18, 2009, two days before the Westboro Baptist Church's first UK picket, the UK Home Office announced that Fred Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper would be refused entry and that "other church members could also be flagged and stopped if they tried to enter Britain".[39] In May 2009, he and his daughter Shirley were placed on the Home Office's "name and shame" list of people barred from entering the UK for "fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence".[40]
