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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center right) stands during the opening of the winter session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. Mr. Netanyahu offered to renew a moratorium on Jewish settlement construction in the West Bank if the Palestinians meet his demand to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
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New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino (second from right) speaks to a group of Orthodox Jewish rabbis, including Rabbi Yehuda Levin (right), as Mr. Paladin's campaign manager, Michael Caputo (seated, third from right), listens during a campaign stop at Karlsburg Rabbinical College in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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Associated Press Rep. Rob Bishop, Utah Republican, seen here in March 2009, posted the draft report on his website Friday.
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In this photo taken on April 12, 2010, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Kunduz Gov. Mohammed Omar attend a meeting with elders in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Mr. Omar was among many killed in a bomb blast at a mosque in Takhar province Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
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Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith (89) leaves the field on a cart after being injured in an NFL football game agains the the New Orleans Saints in New Orleans, Sunday, Oct. 3, 2010. The Saints defeated the Pantyhers 16-14. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
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Members of the Westboro Baptist Church picket in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. The court was hearing the free-speech dispute between Albert Snyder of York, Pa., and the Topeka, Kan., church. The case focuses on whether the church has the right to protest at funerals. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Religious students forced to beg by their Koranic teacher ask for change from cars on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal. Senegal's government said that it is stepping up its campaign against begging in the streets of the capital, where tens of thousands of children can be seen wandering barefoot and swarming cars for change. (Associated Press)
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Margie Phelps, center, and Shirley Phelps-Roper, left, of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Tokepa Kan., speaks in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., and the Westboro Baptist Church. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Margie Phelps, right, and Shirley Phelps-Roper, second from right, of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Tokepa Kan., speak to the press in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., and the Westboro Baptist Church. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church, of Tokepa Kan., lower right, celebrates as she walks down the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010,with Margie Phelps, left, the lawyer and church member who argued the case for the Westboro Baptist Church, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Albert Snyder, of York, Pa., and the Westboro Baptist Church. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Albert Snyder of York, Pa., left, steps aside after making a statement in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Snyder and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. At right is Kansas Attorney Gen. Stephen Six. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Albert Snyder of York, Pa., second from left, leaves theSupreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, with retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Larry Twitchell, left, after the court heard arguments in the dispute between Snyder and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Members of the Westboro Baptist Church picket in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. The court is hearing arguments Wednesday in the dispute between Albert Snyder of York, Pa., and members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The case pits Snyder's right to grieve privately against the church members' right to say what they want, no matter how offensive. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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A visitor to the Supreme Court wears a badge in honor of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010, in Washington. The court is hearing arguments Wednesday in the dispute between Albert Snyder of York, Pa., and members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The case pits Snyder's right to grieve privately against the church members' right to say what they want, no matter how offensive.(AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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In a March 19, 2006 file photo, Pastor Fred Phelps preaches at his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. Albert Snyder of York, Pa., the father of a Marine killed in Iraq, is asking the Supreme Court to reinstate a $5 million verdict against members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., led by the Rev. Fred Phelps, who picketed his son's funeral with signs like "Thank God for Dead Soldiers" and "God Hates the USA." The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 in the dispute between Snyder and members of the Westboro Baptist Church. The case pits Snyder's right to grieve privately against the church members' right to say what they want, no matter how offensive. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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** FILE ** In a Sept. 22, 2010, file photo, Albert Snyder, 55, talks about his son, Matthew, a Marine who was killed in Iraq, and about the Supreme Court case that will focus on a lawsuit he filed against Rev. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church for protesting his son's funeral, in York, Pa. (AP Photo/Ann Foster,File)
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In this Feb. 8, 2006 file photo, Margie Phelps, right, and her nephew, Gabriel Phelps-Roper, then 10, center, both from the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., protest before the start of a memorial service for soldiers killed in combat from the Army's 101st Airborne Division in front of the main entrance to Fort Campbell, Ky. Phelps is set to go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2010, to represent her church in a case that tests the scope of free speech protections under the Constitution's First Amendment. (AP Photo/Christopher Berkey, File)
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Audrey Low, 10, of Reston, Va., holds a sing as she watches from across the street as members of the Westboro Baptist Church dance on American Flags at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Members of the Westboro Baptist Church picket in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. The court was hearing arguments in the dispute between Albert Snyder of York, Pa., and members of the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan. The case pits Mr. Snyder's right to grieve privately against the church members' right to say what they want, no matter how offensive. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
