Funeral Protests

Demonstrators will be barred from disrupting military funerals at national cemeteries under legislation approved by Congress and sent to the White House Wednesday The measure, passed by voice vote in the House hours after the Senate passed an amended version, specifically targets a Kansas church group that has staged protests at military funerals around the country, claiming that the deaths were a sign of God's anger at U.S. tolerance of homosexuals. The act "will protect the sanctity of all 122 of our national cemeteries as shrines to their gallant dead," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said prior to the Senate vote. "It's a sad but necessary measure to protect what should be recognized by all reasonable people as a solemn, private and deeply sacred occasion," he said.

Unfortunately excluded from the bill was the provision that law abiding, compassionate citizens would have free reign to kick the ever-loving shit out of anyone who dared protest at any funeral, let alone a military one.

Ok...I made that last part up, but it sure sounded good...didn't it?