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...and raise you $6 million more in punitive damages. Goodbye, Westboro Baptist Church. Feel free to protest another funeral if you'd like to make another donation. (Collection agencies against Phelpsites. Thank you, God.)
Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten applauded the jury's ruling.
“I think there will be a lot of smiling people in Topeka tonight who will be pleased with the verdict,” he said. “For far too long, this group has been an embarrassment to Topekans."
Bunten said Topeka residents have never approved of Westboro Church’s message or its picketing.
“And I believe I speak for our citizens when I extend our congratulations to Mr. Snyder, the judge and the jury in Maryland for expressing not only their own position, but ours as well,” he said.
Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten applauded the jury's ruling.
“I think there will be a lot of smiling people in Topeka tonight who will be pleased with the verdict,” he said. “For far too long, this group has been an embarrassment to Topekans."
Bunten said Topeka residents have never approved of Westboro Church’s message or its picketing.
“And I believe I speak for our citizens when I extend our congratulations to Mr. Snyder, the judge and the jury in Maryland for expressing not only their own position, but ours as well,” he said.
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