Westboro Baptist Church Petition: Activists Aim To Strip Church’s Tax-Exempt Status
The Westboro Baptist Church is under full assault in the wake of the Connecticut school shootings, with online activists targeting the church and aiming to strip it of its tax-exempt status.
In the wake of Friday’s school shooting in Connecticut, Westboro Baptist Church members tweeted their intentions to picket memorial services for the victims, which included 20 children who attended Sandy Hook Elementary School. This caused an immediate and full-forced reaction from the internet, with the online hacker group Anonymous finding and releasing personal information on Westboro Baptist Church members.
Now activists have taken the assault on the Westboro Baptist Church a step further, threatening to cut off the church’s revenue by taking away its tax-exempt status. Two separate petitions have been created on the White House’s We The People website, which pledges that President Obama will officially respond to any that receive at least 25,000 signatures within a month.
In just a few hours, each of the separate petitions garnered more than 4,000 votes, and together they had more than 10,000 by Sunday evening.
“The members of this hate group make a practice of targeting funerals to make their case, routinely inflicting further pain and anguish onto the mourning families of deceased soldiers and, even worse, the victims of tragic crimes,” one petition read. :They hold signs thanking God and celebrating the deaths of these people. They wave these signs in the faces of the families.
“By granting their tax exemption WE ARE FUNDING THEIR HATE. This must change.”
The Westboro Baptist Church has not announced any more specifics on plans to picket memorials for the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims, but is continuing to earn venom for statements members have already made. A blog from the church praised the shooter and noted that there was a good ratio of children to adults killed, ZDNet noted.
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Posted: December 16, 2012
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Dec 17, 2012
losers
Dec 17, 2012
Hate begets hate. That is not a church. That is a den of vipers.
Dec 17, 2012
Why? Why would they picket the memorials of the Sandy Hook victims? it's no concern of theirs.
Dec 17, 2012
These people are sick and deranged. They need to be committed for psychiatric treatment.
Dec 17, 2012
Wont it be a great day when all religious cults have been eradicated from the face of the earth?
Dec 17, 2012
The face of evil.
Dec 17, 2012
I will sign any petition to abolish the fake church of hate!
Dec 17, 2012
That's not showing love and compassion as the Bible teaches us to do.Why doesn't somebody picket thier sorry asses. Leave the deceased children and Military alone.
Dec 17, 2012
All I have to say is hahahahaha…And that it's no church but a cult or stupid people.
Dec 17, 2012
The same reason they picket anything. To get attention. They want to cause confrontation and hope for something that will allow them to sue.
Dec 17, 2012
Singed the petition at the White House site to have their tax exempt status stripped and have them categorized as a hate group.
Dec 17, 2012
They are the embodiment of the antichrist. They claim to be the most holy only to reveal all that is pure evil and, against the teachings of christ.
Dec 17, 2012
If they show up at a funeral for any of those children the MILITARY that they hate so much.. should be there and open fire on their sorry asses… the police should be allowed to arrest them or stop them in some way… bunch of worthless waste of skin a breathe!
Dec 17, 2012
Thank you Media, for boosting the view of these petitions to thousands of sane and compassionate people who know hate when they see it and want it eradicated… These will surely get enough signatures now…
Dec 17, 2012
Is it also possible for people OUTSIDE the USA to sign a petition like this?
By the looks of it you need to have a USA address.
Dec 17, 2012
Sign, for the love of God sign and shut these people up!
Dec 17, 2012
Me too.
Dec 17, 2012
Its concerning the U.S. government, so yes, im pretty sure it is a requirement
Dec 18, 2012
Not only will I sign this petition, I will be forwarding information regarding the #NamelessChurch onto the IRS directly. They were warned; to say otherwise would be a lie #TRUTH @Catziiis http://cjonline.com/opinion/2012-11-29/letter-nameless-church.