Now Here's Justice!!!

The Westboro Baptist Church--the one that has been protesting at military funerals, and cheering at the deaths of soldiers, has taken it in the shorts:

BALTIMORE — The father of a fallen Marine was awarded nearly $11 million Wednesday in damages by a jury that found leaders of a fundamentalist church had invaded the family's privacy and inflicted emotional distress when they picketed the Marine's funeral.

The jury first awarded $2.9 million in compensatory damages. It returned later in the afternoon with its decision to award $6 million in punitive damages for invasion of privacy and $2 million for causing emotional distress to the Marine's father, Albert Snyder of York, Pa.

Snyder sued the Kansas-based 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.

This, however, does not put a damper on their plans to remain complete assholes:

The defense said it planned to appeal and one of the church's leaders, Shirley Phelps-Roper, said the members would continue their pickets of military funerals.

Good... I'm sure there are a lot more military families whose sons made the supreme sacrifice that can use the money.

Before the jury began deliberating the size of punitive damages, 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.

Do you hear that sound, Fred Phelps?

It's the sound of God looking down from Heaven and telling you, "Get the hell off my side, asshat!"