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Source: Baltimore Sun The Kansas-based anti-gay church that was smacked with a $10.9 million jury award against its members has asked a federal judge in Baltimore to review the judgment. The father of a Marine killed in Iraq successfully sued Westboro Baptist Church and three of its leaders for invading...

Source: Baltimore Sun Leading constitutional scholars say the multimillion-dollar damages awarded last month to the father of a Marine killed in Iraq is likely to be overturned because the church members who protested at his son's funeral enjoy broad protection under the First Amendment. In October...

Source: Baltimore Sun The brokenhearted father of a Marine killed in Iraq won a long-shot legal fight today after a federal jury in Baltimore awarded him nearly $11 million in a verdict against members of a Kansas church who hoisted anti-gay placards at his son's Westminster funeral. The jury's...

Source: Baltimore Sun A member of a Kansas-based anti-gay church told a federal jury Tuesday that America's acceptance of homosexuality spurred her and fellow parishioners to picket a Westminster Marine's funeral, one of the demonstrations by the group that have become so frequent that 22 states...