Anonymous, Westboro Baptist Church prepare for war

Details: Category: LGBT Issues; Published on Monday, 21 February 2011 14:19; Written by Lara Landis; Hits: 831

Internet hacker activist group Anonymous has made an open declaration to the members of the Westboro Baptist Church. A warning from Anonymous demands that WBC stop its funeral protests and shut down its controversial websites God Hates Fags and God Hates the Media.

“We give you a warning: Cease & desist your protest campaign in the year 2011, return to your homes in Kansas, & close your public Web sites. Should you ignore this warning, you will be met with the vicious retaliatory arm of ANONYMOUS: We will target your public Websites and the propaganda & detestable doctrine that you promote will be eradicated; the damage incurred will be irreversible, and neither your institution nor your congregation will ever be able to fully recover," warns the official release from Anonymous.

Anonymous has started its own controversial campaigns in the past. The Internet-based group started a campaign against the Church of Scientology in 2008. A warning to the group threatens that Anonymous will strike a blow from which the church can never recover.

Members of the Westboro Baptist church issued their own response challenging the Hackers to “bring it on”. The Kansas church issued a statement that God will protect them from the attacks yesterday.

“The only reason the Internet exists is for Wesboro Baptist Church to tell this nation and this world that your destruction draws nigh,” claims the response. Members of WBC started picketing funerals of dead service members after the start of the second Persian Gulf war.

Reverend Fred Phelps leads the church which belongs to no official Baptist convention. Most of the 75 members of the Kansas based church are members of Phelps’s extended family. Neither group has stated an official position on Asexuality.