6A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2006
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION
Acts to limit funeral protesters
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
INDIANAPOLIS — Sen.
Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) said
Wednesday he plans to introduce the Dignity for Military Funerals Act, which would require protesters to stay 300 feet from a funeral.
"Our troops are among the most selfless and idealistic people I have met, and they should be buried with the dignity they
have earned," Bayh said in a statement.
Bayh's legislation would limit the area where protesters could gather an hour before and after funerals, as well as while the services are under way.
Meanwhile, Reps. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) announced separate plans to introduce legislation in the House that would require protestors to
stand 500 feet from funerals.
"It is outrageous, appalling and indecent for an American citizen to commit perversions against a military family grieving at their loss," Buyer said in a statement.
But attorney Shirley Phelps-Roper, a member of the Westboro Baptist Church that has protested at several military funerals, said it infringed on First Amendment freedoms.
"They're going to take the crowning jewels of the First Amendment and throw it in the trash," she said. "They think they can make us shut up. They're no different from the Taliban in Afghanistan."
The church recently has canceled planned protests in states where legislatures passed funeral limits. The group plans to travel to Washington, D.C., next month to picket Congress.