Westboro Baptist Church to pay more than $3,000!

Reporter: Associated Press
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BALTIMORE (AP) -- A federal judge in Baltimore is ordering
Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church to pay more than $3,000 in
costs related to the funeral of a Marine the group picketed.

Albert Snyder of York, Pennsylvania, is suing because church
members demonstrated at the funeral of his son, Lance Corporal
Matthew Snyder. Church members also posted pictures of the protest
on their Web site.

Corporal Snyder was killed in Iraq in March.

The lawsuit was filed in June. It says church members violated
the family's right to privacy and defamed the Marine and his family
at the funeral and on the church's Web site.

Court documents say the church has 30 days to make the payment
to Snyder.