renard_ruse
Break up Amazon
- Joined
- Aug 30, 2007
- Posts
- 16,094
...More than 475,000 people have signed petitions asking the White House to crack down on Westboro Baptist Church after the group, known for holding anti-gay demonstrations at funerals, threatened to picket in Newtown, Conn.
Five petitions posted on the White House website since the shootings have asked the government to name the church, based in Topeka, Kan., a hate group or end its tax-exempt status. The requests were among the most popular on the White House site on Thursday...
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a [self-described] "civil rights organization," has called the church "arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America" because of the anti-gay signs its members have carried at hundreds of military funerals. Church members say the protests reflect their view that God is punishing America for tolerance of gays and lesbians...
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...to-picket-newtown-sparks-call-for-action?lite