The number of people who have signed a petition to the White House asking for it to label the notorious Westboro Baptist Church a hate group is approaching 300,000, according to Politico.com .
The petition—aimed at the Kansas church known for picketing military funerals and other events with signs declaring "GOD HATES FAGS"—is believed to be the most popular cause ever on the White House's "We the People" petition site. The church has picketed the funerals of military members killed in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as ceremonies for of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
Four other petitions targeting the church's tax-exempt status have garnered nearly 200,000 additional signatures.
