>> guest: , so, the hardest exam for people to accept would be westboro baptist church which is the god hates church in kansas the when i went there i very much wanted to dislike the church. they are so angry. seems like they are so hateful. and yet they tried to explain to me that what they're doing is out of love because they believe that they've been instructed to love thy neighbor, and how can you love your neighbor more than tell them that they're going to hell if they have a chance to turn around. so they put what they're doing is a loving thing. that's really hard for the rest of us to accept. i don't expect everybody to accept that without skepticism but i think we have to least take a moment to consider what they say they're coming from. >> host: jeff chu, did you interview members of the phelps family, and were you out of the? >> guest: i spent four days in topeka having dinner with the phelps, talking to them, worshiping with them in church, going on protest within because of the wanted to understand what life was like in that congregation. they were very open with me and i w

. >> reporter: westboro middle school in south san francisco is one of 10,000 schools across the globeing to participate. >> gets them really to understand how to go about doing certain tasks and understanding the benefits of technology. >> reporter: hour of code is backed by dozens of tech companies and luminaries like twitter co-founder jack dorsey and bill gates. >> i wrote a program that played ticktacktoe. >> reporter: file sharing service dropbox is donating storage for the event. ceo drew howston hopes students get as hooked on coding as he did. >> my dad showed me how to write my first line of code. >> reporter: it's unlikely the education standards will be revised to include coding. still, 60 minutes could bring change. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, he fell asleep on a plane to houston... and was left beh "i woke >>> a trip to california turned in to quite the adventure for a louisiana man. >> he fell asleep on a plane to houston and was left behind. >> i woke up and the lights were out and i was like what's going on? >> no one bothered to wake the man when he arrived in houston and th

the church of scientology, government agencies in the united states, israel, tunisia, uganda, the westboro baptist church, sony, etc.. one of our guest today is the author of "we are anonymous." new york magazine called this book the insider account of the hacker movement. she will share with us both some of her stories from her book, but also she will talk about some of her new work on mobile tracking. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much for that introduction. it is a real privilege to be here at chicago ideas week. i am a journalist with forbes. i started off in radio journalism and i joined forbes in their london bureau writing about business and marketing currencies. two years ago, i started focusing on technology. a couple years ago, i started writing about anonymous. i read a book about it. now forbes magazine probably isn't the kind of publication that you would expect one of their journalists to write about a bunch of young anarchic people who go around subverting things on the internet. they do not make much money at all. and writingain why a

. >> one of the defenders is the westboro baptist church. they are vocally supporting him. >> okay. forget them. >> i would love to. they didn't forget phil robertson. >> you know there are a lot of people in the country -- half of the people in the country say homosexuality is a sin and many don't. many people feel it is a sin. they say he is expressing -- albeit in controversial terms -- what i feel. >> we over looked the racist element. it's arguably more compelling. i question the poll. we see the majority support is trending to equality. >> he could have said he's against marriage equality. if you want to stand with with phil robert son you are not standing with free speech. you are standing with anti-gay comments. you can do that but these are dangerous sh hurtful comments also straight allies and people like myself. i have a 2-month-year-old daughter. by me appearing on your show she may find these comments some day and see that this happened in o 2013. >> directed at gas and lesbians. >> exactly. >> we'll move on to tony from the family research council. from a christian wor

the church of scientology, government agencies in the united states, israel, tunisia, uganda, the westboro baptist church, sony, etc. one of our guests today is the author of "we are anonymous." new york magazine called this book the insider account of the hacker movement. she will share with us both some of her stories from her book, but also she will talk about some of her new work on mobile tracking. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much for that introduction. it is a real privilege to be here at chicago ideas week. i am a journalist with forbes. i started off in radio journalism and i joined forbes in their london bureau writing about business and marketing currencies. two years ago, i started focusing on technology. a couple years ago, i started writing about anonymous. i read a book about it. now forbes magazine probably isn't the kind of publication that you would expect one of their journalists to write about a bunch of young anarchic people who go around subverting things on the internet. they do not make much money at all. just to explain why

the church of scientology, government agencies in the united states, israel, tunisia, uganda, the westboro baptist church, sony, etc.. one of our guest today is the author of "we are anonymous." new york magazine called this book the insider account of the hacker movement. she will share with us both some of her stories from her book, but also she will talk about some of her new work on mobile tracking. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you so much for that introduction. it is a real privilege to be here at chicago ideas week. i am a journalist with forbes. i started off in radio journalism and i joined forbes in their london bureau writing about business and marketing currencies. two years ago, i started focusing on technology. a couple years ago, i started writing about anonymous. i read a book about it. now forbes magazine probably isn't the kind of publication that you would expect one of their journalists to write about a bunch of young anarchic people who go around subverting things on the internet. they do not make much money at all. just to explain why

planting peace famous for the rainbow colored equality house directly across from the homophobic westborohouse in honor of those who have been lost to violence. planting peace is also creating secret safehouses for members of the lgbt community in uganda where draconian anti-sexuality bill passed last week. >>> this year we also met 12-year-old madison kimry who started a moveon.org begs asking north carolina governor pat mccrory to meet with her why he signed an ultrarestrictive voting rights law. after coming on our show, she gave a stirring speech at a moral monday protest in the fall and started a new petition calling for federal legislation to grant 16 and 17-year-olds the right to preregister to vote. dr. malcolm woodland founded a training program for african-american boys in washington. this past summer, six high school sophomores lived at howard university learning about medicine is, psychology and health issues affecting their communities. the young docs are also taking part in local health fairs and meet every saturday throughout the school year. they're looking forward to retu