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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProtesters at Iowa funerals must now stay 1,000 feet away
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http://www.omaha.com/news/crime/protesters-at-iowa-funerals-must-now-stay-feet-away/article_b93a6fa6-1e29-590b-8fab-60b31fbc7842.html
POSTED: FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2015 11:45 PM
By Andrew J. Nelson / World-Herald staff writer
Protesters will have to keep a greater distance from grieving families at funerals under a bill signed Friday by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad.
The measure, House File 558, unanimously passed both houses of the Iowa Legislature.
The family goes through enough grief, Branstad said in an interview Friday after he signed the bill.
They shouldnt be confronted with having protesters in their face. ... I think having this kind of a buffer is certainly the kind of protection the family needs in this difficult time.
FULL story at link.
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Protesters at Iowa funerals must now stay 1,000 feet away (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Apr 2015
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NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)1. Note to nuts: God doesn't hate anybody.
1 John 4:8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)4. That's a good verse for everyone.
The world would be a better place if more people took heed of that verse.
sendit
(58 posts)2. Good law
These people just need to go away