So in March 2006, Westboro protesters showed up at St. John's Catholic Church ("St. John's Kennel" in their formulation) in Westminster for Mr. Snyder's funeral, reportedly carrying signs depicting male anal sex and slogans like "Semper Fi Fags."
For the record, no one has claimed Matthew Snyder was gay. Not that that should matter. But the church's bizarre argument is that the death of "every" dead serviceperson should be celebrated as God's punishment of a gay-tolerant nation.
Cpl. Snyder's father, Albert, sued the "church" for disrupting his son's funeral. In October 2007, he won a $10.9 million verdict. Last September, an appeals court tossed that verdict out.
The worst of it is that the court recently ordered Mr. Snyder to help pay Westboro's legal bills. You heard me. Mr. Snyder, who makes $43,000 a year, must pay $16,500 to the people who made a circus of his son's funeral. "You can do the math," says his attorney, Sean Summers. Snyder has been forced to seek donations online (www.matthewsnyder.org).
Westboro says it will use the money to give the same treatment to another grieving family.
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