Thousands Petition To Label Anti-Gay Church a Hate Group

A growing number of people want to designate the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group. The Kansas-based church gained notoriety for protesting military funerals with anti-gay messages, and threatened to protest the recent funerals of the young Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. More than 280,000 people have signed a digital petition on the White House's website requesting that the church be labeled a hate group, well above the number needed to mandate a response from the Obama...Full Story