While the First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees free speech, in the 1942 Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire case it was ruled unanimously that, "insulting or 'fighting words,' those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are not protected by the First Amendment, and are punishable by law.
Recognize the Westboro Baptist Church protests as personal attacks, (rather than public protests) as the Westboro Baptist Church is using the specific, personal event of a family's mourning in order to protest their own ideal-set.



