Right Side of the Rainbow

Via Hannity & Colmes, watch the hate:

(Thanks to Empires Fall.)

ADDED —

In a comment below, “mAcChaos” links to this report in the New York Times, which reads in part:

In the past few months, nine states, including Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Indiana, have approved laws that restrict demonstrations at a funeral or burial. In addition, 23 state legislatures are getting ready to vote on similar bills, and Congress, which has received thousands of e-mail messages on the issue, expects to take up legislation in May dealing with demonstrations at federal cemeteries.

“mAcChaos” asks what I think of this: “Is it a common sense restriction or an inappropriate infringement on our First Amendment rights?”

I think the answer turns on the particulars of a given statute. Since I haven’t read any of the bills or statutes to which the Times refers, I can’t comment on them. But as a general proposition, I doubt the ratifiers of the First Amendment would have understood it to prevent state-level regulation of the sort of obscenity Fred Phelps and his relatives engage in. But that’s just my opinion; it’s not the law. For an informative overview of extant First Amendment law as it might relate to restrictions on funeral protests, see this article by Professor Eugene Volokh.