1. Freedom of Speech: Snyder vs. Phelps
... a half hour before the funeral and ended the picketing as the funeral began.xi In addition, the Phelps' published an "epic " on their website that clearly targeted Matthew Snyder personally, entitled "The Burden of Marine Corporal Matthew Snyder. "xii In the epic, the Phelps' accuse Albert Snyder and his ex-wife Julie Snyder of teaching Matthew to defy his creator and to ... divorce and commit adultery, of raising him for the devil, and of teaching him that God is a liar. The epic went on to state that God "rose up " Matthew in order to kill him and that Matthew "fulfilled his calling "...
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