Posted by
Billy on Wednesday, December 09, 2009 2:27:45 PM
An attorney for a Kansas woman accused of violating Nebraska’s
flag-desecration law has lost the latest round in a fight to invalidate what he
believes is an unconstitutional statute.
Attorney Bassel El-Kasaby said Monday that despite the Nebraska Supreme
Court’s recent decision to dismiss his appeal, the legal battle he’s waging on
behalf of Shirley Phelps-Roper will continue.
Phelps-Roper was accused in 2007 of letting her then-10-year-old son stand on
an American flag at the funeral of a National Guardsman in Bellevue. Authorities
also say she wore a flag as a skirt that dragged on the ground.
She is a member of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., whose members
believe U.S. troop deaths are punishment for the nation’s tolerance of
homosexuality.
Besides being accused of violating the flag law, which is a misdemeanor, she
also was charged with disturbing the peace, contributing to the delinquency of a
minor and negligent child abuse stemming from the protest.
Phelps-Roper, who has previously denied violating any law, said she once saw
the case as a battle to uphold the right to free speech. Today its outcome is of
little consequence when the nation’s destruction is imminent, she said.
“Each day that that case lingers, there’s just more wrath upon this nation,”
she said.
(I hope this lady will lose in her fight but what is more troubling is that she tells others she is just following God and doing his will. I don't know her heart or where she is with the Lord but I know based on the Bible I read she is not for one second speaking for the Lord. Read more on this news item Woman will fight flag case.)