Father of Fallen Soldier Wins $2.9 Million From Crazy Kansas Church

In a follow-up to this post, the father of the fallen soldier who sued the nuts at Westboro Baptist Church has won big:

BALTIMORE — A federal jury on Wednesday awarded the father of a fallen Marine $2.9 million in compensatory damages after finding a fundamentalist Kansas church and three of its leaders liable for invasion of privacy and intent to inflict emotional distress for picketing the Marine's funeral in 2006.

The jury was to begin deliberating the size of punitive damages after receiving further instructions, although U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett noted the size of the compensatory award "far exceeds the net worth of the defendants," according to financial statements filed with the court.

Albert Snyder of York, Pa., sued the Westboro Baptist Church for unspecified monetary damages after members staged a demonstration at the March 2006 funeral of his son, Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, who was killed in Iraq.

That church probably couldn't pull together $2.9 thousand. Maybe this will put an end to their insulting protests.

UPDATE: You can add another $8 million in punitive damages, bringing the total to nearly $11 million. Fred Phelps and his inbred weirdos at Westboro Baptist Church think "God Hates Fags", but he apparently doesn't care much for them either.