"Anonymous" Tells Westboro Baptist Church: Picket Boston Marathon Funerals At Your Own Risk

Few domestic groups are more foul and down right vile than the hate merchants at the Westboro Baptist Church.  Common decency is an unknown concept for these folks and in the wake of yesterday's horrible attack on innocent civilians in Boston,  the always foul Westboro Baptist Church has been bleating and tweeting "THANK GOD FOR THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBS!! Westboro Baptist Church to picket funerals of those killed."  It really doesn't get more foul, especially when one thinks of 8 year old Martin Richard (pictured at left) or his young sister who lost a leg in the blast, than this "Christians."  Thankfully, the group Anonymous has stepped up and warned the Westboro Church folks to picket the funerals at their own risk.  Here are highlights from Huffington Post:

First responders were still on the scene at Boston's devastated Copley Square when fringe hate group Westboro Baptist Church announced it would be picketing the funeral of Boston Marathon bombing victims.

In the message, the group states that "Massachusetts invited this special wrath from God Almighty when it was the first state to pass same-sex marriage on May 17, 2004."

However, hacktivist group Anonymous made it very clear that if the WBC tried anything in Boston, they would feel the full fury of the online community.
 
WBC, an anti-gay, anti-Semitic group, has made a name for itself as an ambassador of the offensive. Throughout the past few years, the Kansas-based group has threatened to picket everything, including the funerals of victims of the Tucson, Ariz., shooting, as well as those of American soldiers and the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.

But in what could be described as an unintended consequence of the WBC's hatemongering, people across the country have come together to fight the group. In the process, the direct result of WBC protests is often more tolerance, more acceptance and a sense of community-wide solidarity.

After the group threatened to picket in Newtown, Conn., Anonymous launched a full-fledged attack on the WBC, publishing group members' personal information online, overtaking the group's main website and hacking the Twitter account of one if its representatives.

And when Anonymous announced plans to block the WBC from picketing Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz's funeral, the group backed down at the last minute.

Personally, I hope Anonymous unleashes a full fury against the Westboro folks.  They are vile and disgusting.  And they are helping to kill the Christian brand through their incessant displays of hate and bigotry.  They are revealing the true ugliness of Christianity, especially in its conservative, fundamentalists variants.