TOPEKA, KA – A website hacker group, known as Anonymous, has threatened to shut down the websites of the Reverend Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church located in Topeka, Kansas. Previously, Anonymous has disabled sites belonging to Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange, Visa and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Phelps and his followers have several websites including GodHatesFags.com and GodHatesAmerica.com.

The open letter to WBC from Anonymous said:

“We, the collective super-consciousness known as ANONYMOUS – the Voice of Free Speech & the Advocate of the People – have long heard you issue your venomous statements of hatred, and we have witnessed your flagrant and absurd displays of inimitable bigotry and intolerant fanaticism. We have always regarded you and your ilk as an assembly of graceless sociopaths and maniacal chauvinists & religious zealots, however benign, who act out for the sake of attention & in the name of religion.”

“ANONYMOUS cannot abide this behavior any longer. The time for us to be idle spectators in your inhumane treatment of fellow Man has reached its apex, and we shall now be moved to action.

Thus, 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.”

The Westboro Baptist Church responded: “Bring it on!”