Cenk Uygur
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Anti-Westboro Baptist Church Petitition Crushes Records
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December 28, 2012
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5:53Now Playing"Users of the White House's "We the People" digital petition platform have flooded the site in support of an effort to officially designate the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.
The most popular petition was submitted on Dec. 14, the same day as the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., an incident that Westboro responded to by announcing its intent to picket the funerals of the 26 victims, including 20 young children. This plan made them a prime target of hacktivist group Anonymous and eventually drew a well-attended counter-protest to block the church's followers from disrupting the services."*
A White House Petition to remove the Westboro Baptist Church's tax exempt status and classify them as a hate group is smashing records, with droves of people making it the most popular on the website ever. How does the WBC still have tax-exempt status. Should religious groups enjoy that benefit at all? Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
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