Jury: Feel Free to Spit on Shirley Phelps

A West Virginia man was acquitted of battery charges after he spit tobacco juice on Shirley Phelps-Roper of the antigay Phelps clan.



The incident happened last year in Charleston when the Phelps family was picketing in response to the deaths in a West Virginia mining disaster by holding up signs reading, "Thank God for Dead Miners." The family believes the men deserved to die because of America's acceptance of homosexuality.



Billy Spade admits to spitting on Phelps-Roper's sign, though she claimed he spit on her chest. The jury, ruling in less than an hour, said Spade committed no crime, considering the highly charged events of the day.



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