Former Westboro Church members tell their story in Greenwich


Growing up in Westboro Baptist Church We were "true believers," everyone else the enemy

Until last year, Megan Phelps-Roper was famous as one of the faces of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), frequently seen yelling anti-gay or anti-Jewish slogans at the funerals of dead servicemen.


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The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, unaffiliated Primitive Baptist church in Topeka,. -Roper is the grandson of Fred Phelps and the fourth sibling of the Phelps-Roper family to leave WBC (besides Megan and Grace mentioned below, brothers Joshua and Noah have also left). After attempting to leave the organization five times.


Westboro Baptist Church ExMember Megan PhelpsRoper on Family

In 2010, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Westboro Baptist Church's right to protest at funerals, arguing that even hateful speech, when addressing matters of pubic import on public.


Westboro Baptist protests at Atlanta HBCU graduation ceremonies

Growing up in the notorious Westboro Baptist Church, Megan Phelps-Roper was told that God killed soldiers as punishment for America's sins and its tolerance of homosexuality. She started to.


Former Westboro Church members tell their story in Greenwich

Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper, shown in Montreal on Oct. 23, 2013, are granddaughters of Fred Phelps, founder of the homophobic Westboro Baptist Church. CHRISTINNE MUSCHI/The Globe and Mail. Megan.


Inside the Westboro Baptist Church YouTube

Megan Phelps-Roper. Megan's younger sister, the wilful 19-year-old Grace, found herself the target of this new brand of draconian discipline. She was forbidden from seeing friends, told what.


Westboro Baptist Church Picketing in NYC Matriarch Shirley… Flickr

Four months ago Megan and Grace decided to take a different path. They left Westboro Baptist Church and were excommunicated by their family. Now they are embarking on an adventure in the wider.


My day at Westboro Baptist "Yes, Jesus hates you"

In 2012, Megan Phelps Roper and her younger sister, Grace, left the family and Westboro Baptist Church to start a new life.Subscribe to KMBC on YouTube now f.


What Can Westboro Baptist Teach Us about Grace? Beliefs of the Heart

10:36. Megan Phelps-Roper spent her life spreading the hateful words of the Westboro Baptist Church. In this episode of "Reality Check with John Avlon: Extremist Beat," she details what the.


Westboro Baptist Church protests at UW

UNFOLLOW A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church By Megan Phelps-Roper In 1991, a breakaway church in Topeka, Kan., began picketing at a nearby park popular with gay men.


Westboro Baptist Church protests at UW

Megan Phelps-Roper, who first picketed against homosexuality with her family at age 5, writes of facing feelings of guilt. In her memoir she says of her family, "losing them was the price of honesty."


Former Westboro Church members tell their story in Greenwich

Interview - Why Megan and Grace Phelps left Westboro Baptist Church. The following is an interview CBC's Jian Ghomeshi did with Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper and David Abitbol. If you have.


Westboro Baptist Church expected to protest Friday at WSU The Sunflower

Former Westboro Baptist Church member Grace Phelps-Roper answers questions after speaking with her sister, Megan Phelps-Roper, at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Conn. Tuesday, March 29, 2016.


Anonymous Swears Revenge If Westboro Baptist Church Protests Charleston Shooting Victims' Funerals

Megan Phelps-Roper shares details of life inside America's most controversial church and describes how conversations on Twitter were key to her decision to leave it. In this extraordinary talk, she shares her personal experience of extreme polarization, along with some sharp ways we can learn to successfully engage across ideological lines.


Whatever Happened to the Westboro Baptist Church?

Published Oct. 20, 2015, 5:03 p.m. ET. The night before Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper left the church that had meant everything to them, relative after relative streamed into their rooms, crying. Megan Phelps-Roper was trying to pack when a beloved cousin walked in, stone-faced, and told her she was going to hell.


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Megan Phelps-Roper (born January 31, 1986 [citation needed]) is an American political activist who is formerly a member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church, a Hyper-Calvinist Christian sect, widely regarded as a hate group. Her mother is Shirley Phelps-Roper, and her grandfather is the church's founder, Fred Phelps.She grew up in Topeka, Kansas, in a compound with other.