Thank You Westboro?

Today's SCOTUS 8-1 decision that the Westboro Baptist Church is protected by the 1st Amendment first struck me as abhorrent.  Then I started thinking outside the box.  If the bench can communicate to each other when they question counsel during hearings as well as communicate with the Legislature that they need Congress to legislate an issue and not leave it up to the Court to legislate, perhaps the Court is sending the American people a message with today's decision.  Here's what I think the court is telling us:

"Listen America, if we rule against Westboro that what they are doing is not protected under the 1st Amendment of the Constitution, we could possibly open up a pandora's box allowing the Court and Congress to begin regulating your rights just because someone doesn't like what you're saying or how you're saying it and we're not willing to go there.  So here's the deal:  we're going to protect their speech even though the majority of people find it to be hateful and downright wrong to the point of offensive because by doing so we're protecting your speech too.  We've given you some fairly broad perimeters to work with to deal with this social boil on the butt of humanity in your own way using your own rights to say what you want and peaceably assemble.  We believe in the American people's compassion and integrity to come together and put a stop to this madness using the same avenue being used to spew such hate in the first place.  If we're willing to protect their speech regardless of whether or not we or the American people like it, think about what speech of your's we're willing to stand up for in your efforts to put an end to this.  Look to groups like the Freedom Angels who rally around soldier's funerals to protect the families from more pain.  Look to those who surrounded little Christina Green's funeral wearing angel wings so that no one at the funeral had to see such blind hatred toward their little one.  Look to the Facebook groups who catch wind of possible places/events where Westboro may show up and organize a counter protest.  You have the power to do this and by ruling for Westboro, as morally wrong as it may seem, we've actually given you even more tools at your disposal to literally stand up and say "As the American people, we will no longer tolerate this behavior.""

(I realize the words "social boil on the butt of humanity" are virtually impossible to imagine ever escaping the mouth of Ginsburg, however it's pretty funny to think of her throwing down like that.)

So that's it America.  It's up to us and believe it or not, I think the Supreme Court has got our back.