The Supreme Court has upheld the free speech rights of a church that protests military funerals to publicize its homophobic views. The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church says it believes military deaths are God’s punishment for homosexuality in the United States. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 that the church has a legal right to hold the protests. The ruling came in the case of a father of a slain Iraq war veteran who sued the church after it protested his funeral.