The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Westboro Baptist Church has supreme authority to spew its propaganda and inflict emotional pain on the families of sons and daughters who donned the uniforms of this nation and died in its service.

That special sanction has allowed those angels of hell to parade the utmost indignity upon the honor of the least deserving of this subversive ingratitude.

The court has unleashed free rein for this nation to express elation at the pain, illness, suffering and tragedies of members and families of that honorable court, and lesser judiciaries, have endured, while rendering great decisions under enormous pressures that molded and shaped such a great nation.

The court’s edict expressed an ignominy and incomprehension on the nation’s troops equaled only by the regimes of Iran and Libya on their own people.

The dignity, prestige, legacy and honor of the court has been surrendered for a most extreme ruling that is impossible for free mankind to comprehend, while ruling in favor of sanctioning hate speech almost unprecedented in the nation’s history.

Who has earned a greater claim to the fruits of this nation’s 234-year legacy? Those who would build up this honorable nation or those who would castrate it and have the dreams of two centuries die before the natural passing of the same justices who chose to protect hate over the nation that gave them an answer to their American dream.

A free nation deserves more.

Larry W. Mayes, Lewiston