Are protests at military funerals freedom of speech, a hate group, or just a cross section of society?

It is not logical to defend such conduct as a First Amendment exercise, because the families of slain soldiers are not lawmakers who might be persuaded to change the policies the protestors object to. If the protestors have objections to government policies, they should be on the Capitol steps or some similar place, petitioning the government to change its policies, not harassing bereaved families who are no more responsible for the policies than the protestors themselves. Those protests are just more of the virulent religious fanaticism that motivates terrorists, assassins, and other sociopaths all over the world.

It's extremely disgusting and disrespectful. I hate soldiers, so believe me if I say so... Freedom of speech may allow this, but no normal person would do that if they had a little compassion for the family.

Just plain annoying. The soldier died for stupid reasons, but what's the point of protesting at a funeral? What are they even protesting?

They are not using it as freedom of speeach. They can only be hateful to disrespect the soldier and his family who have gathered there to say goodbye to . Shame on the disrupters. They do not love the country.

Those that do choose to protest as allowed in our Constitution.

Freedom is freedom. The freedom to protest killing. The freedom to burn a peice of cloth we call the U.S flag. The government could be labelled a hate group yet people swallow every drop of their propaganda.

I find them repungnant, I'm suprised that anyone using freedom of speach would stoop so low, the war and fighting ended for them when the soldier died.

I think it is disrespectful to our dead soldiers. I think the rev Phelps is a severly repressed homosexual. He talks about sodomy all the time - what does that tell you. Its always on his mind.

He is an attention whore.