As I read your article this was something worth reading in talking about. I had read in watch the News about this so called church. To be straight forward in have the rights of “freedom of speech” May Destiny have the right to write how one must fell. First of all Westboro Baptist Church is NOT a church there just a bunch of a hundred or so family members that are mostly attorneys that have nothing better to do but to be rude and disrespectful towards people. This so called church is doing the things they are for attention and for the money NOT for GOD. The reason for saying “so called church” is because no other church besides this one has ever been heard of protesting at family’s funerals holding signs saying “Thank God For Day Soldiers” or “Thank God For 9/11” Try look around in finding other real Christian churches in see if they do this, pretty sure this is the only church that does “hate full crime” like this. In if this church really is a Baptist Church then why are they judging others? It is clearly writing in the bible in the book of Hebrews that we shouldn’t judge anyone.  So these members of this church need to stop saying things like “U.S. military deaths are God's punishment for America's intolerance of homosexuals." Because that are not God in they shouldn’t judge simple as that. In true what you wrote that “Words do hurt no matter what the old saying about sticks and stones say” Yes we should be happy for the First Amendment but we need to be more respectful in what we say and do, because we have the younger generation look up at us.