How Megan Phelps-Roper Left the Westboro Baptist Church

Without Fail by Gimlet

Apr 20, 202057:43Society & Culture

As the granddaughter of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in a culture of hate. Her family was known for their hateful rhetoric and practice of picketing the funerals of gay peopl...

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