Anonymous hits Westboro Baptist Church over Sandy Hook picket plans

• Tweet

Anonymous reacted quickly when Westboro Baptist Church members said they planned to picket Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 people, including 20 children, were shot and killed Friday. The hacker collective immediately published private email and home addresses of members of the homophobic religious clan abhorred for their notoriously offensive protests of military funerals.

Margie Phelps and various Westboro members sent out tweets over the weekend blaming gay marriage for the Newtown massacre. “Westboro will picket Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing praise to God for the glory of his work in executing his judgment," member Shirley Phelps-Roper said before her Twitter account was hacked by Anonymous' Cosmo the God.

Sorry, Shirley isn't available at the moment. #hehe twitter.com/DearShirley/st…

— Cosmo (@DearShirley) December 17, 2012

#PrayForNewtown

— Cosmo (@DearShirley) December 17, 2012

Anonymous posted what they claim to be Westboro members' private details in a document on Pastebin Sunday -- though it's hard to say how easy it it to gain access to such information anyway. Anonymous also appears to have taken down Westboro's website.

@kyanonymous posted a video and message threatening to "render [Westboro Church] obsolete (via BetaBeat):

Anonymous - Message To The Westboro Baptist Church from @kyanonymous on Vimeo.