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The US Supreme Court weighed whether the Westboro Baptist Church -- anti-gay religious group that pickets military funerals with signs that read "Thank God for dead soldiers" -- is exercising its right to free speech or invading a grieving family's privacy.

The Supreme Court seemed to have trouble putting aside the ugliness of the message to focus on the rights of the messenger Wednesday, as justices tried to balance free speech against the privacy owed a grieving family burying a son.

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