Revoke the Tax Exempt Status of the Westboro Baptist Church

Both The Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center list The WBC as a Hate Group, picketing the funerals of innocents, such as the children and adults of Newton, CT, and picketing the funeral of actor Paul Walker, military veterans, among others, based on their bigotry and homophobia, and the Southern Baptist Convention, along with The Baptist World Alliance, two of the largest Baptist denominations, don't recognize them as a sanctioned church, and have actually denounced the WBC. I am appalled that such hatred and self-righteous mockery of all that we as Americans hold dear can be, and is, rewarded by the continuing of granting them tax-exempt status. They do not deserve our generosity as tax-paying citizens, but our pity at their foolish blindness to truths that we strive for every day.