Fred Phelps' Westboro backlash: Oklahoma legislator proposes funeral protest ban

Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church continues to gain enemies.

A Republican Oklahoma legislator has proposed a law to ban the protests at funerals. I know, free speech....free speech.....

But they can protest any other time. The stuff Phelps and his cult of losers is not what the founding fathers had in mind when the Bill of Rights was passed.

From KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City:

(Paul) Wesselhofft, R-Moore, is proposing to make it a misdemeanor offense to picket or otherwise demonstrate within 500 feet of where a funeral is being held and within two hours of the time a funeral is to begin or to end.

"I am not regulating content of speech," he said, adding that protesters can still exercise their First Amendment Rights, just not at a funeral.

"Grieving families have rights, too," he said.

Yes, they do.

Tomorrow, Fred Phelps and his "church" will picket a funeral in Port Huron, MI.