More Legislative Idiocy From Austin: Banning Protests At Funerals

I anticipate that Governor Perry will expand the call this weekend to include legalizing marijuana. I say that because he and Senator Robert Duncan must have been high as kites when they decided to add this “stupid legislative trick,” to the call:

Gov. Rick Perry added two more items to the agenda of the 30-day special legislative session on school finance on Friday, including one that would let lawmakers bar members of an anti-gay church from protesting funerals.

Duncan’s bill would make it a Class B misdemeanor to protest within 500 feet of the site of a funeral service from one hour prior to the time the site is used for a service until one hour after.

Of course, this bill is designed to stop the psycho-Baptists from protesting soldiers’ funerals. As best as I could ever tell, they protest soldiers’ funerals because:

Military funerals are pagan orgies of idolatrous blasphemy where they pray to the dunghill gods of Sodom and play taps to a fallen fool.

Oh. Well, that clears things up. Not! Clearly these people are crazy. But what is more crazy is enacting a law that infringes on Texans’ right to freedom to assemble, freedom to speak and freedom to express.

As much as we all no doubt tetest these nutters, they are afforded the same rights as all the rest of us.

I’m sure that, about now, some of you are probably cussing me out for not being reasonable—”But these people are nuts!” I can almost hear some of you noting.

That may be the case, and I don’t want them protesting any more than anyone else does, but the fact remains that, if you limit one thing from protests and expression of free speech, pretty soon you limit something else. And, then something else after that, and on and on until…well you get the idea.

Doesn’t the Lege have anything beter on its mind?

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