{"id":377,"date":"2011-03-02T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/victory-for-hate-westboro-baptist-church-wins-supreme-court-case-pakistans-christian-minister-gunned.html"},"modified":"2011-03-02T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T11:03:00","slug":"victory-for-hate-westboro-baptist-church-wins-supreme-court-case-pakistans-christian-minister-gunned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/03\/victory-for-hate-westboro-baptist-church-wins-supreme-court-case-pakistans-christian-minister-gunned.html","title":{"rendered":"Victory for Hate? Westboro Baptist Church Wins Supreme Court Case, Pakistan&#8217;s Christian Minister Gunned Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bad news morning:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/02\/idINL3E7E20FV20110302\">Christian Pakistani Minister Shot Dead in Islamabad Ambush <\/a>(Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110302\/ap_on_re_us\/us_supreme_court_funeral_protests\">High Court Rules for Military Funeral Protesters <\/a>(AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow. Makes me wish I had stayed in bed longer, especially after an all-nighter with a sick toddler. .<\/p>\n<p>For a silver lining &#8212; though it doesn&#8217;t make up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/first-same-sex-divorce-registered-in-mexico\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+catholicnewsagency\/dailynews+(CNA+Daily+News)\">an atrocious bit of Catholic &#8220;reporting&#8221; yesterday<\/a>&nbsp;&#8212; check out:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20110302\/ap_on_re_eu\/eu_vatican_jews\">Pope&nbsp;Exonerates Jews for&nbsp;Jesus&#8217; Death in New Book<\/a> (AP)<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter.<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bad news morning: Christian Pakistani Minister Shot Dead in Islamabad Ambush (Reuters) High Court Rules for Military Funeral Protesters (AP) Wow. Makes me wish I had stayed in bed longer, especially after an all-nighter with a sick toddler. . For a silver lining &#8212; though it doesn&#8217;t make up for an atrocious bit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Victory for Hate? 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