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Megan Phelps-Roper - Former Member, Westboro Baptist Church

From the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper had been a member of Westboro Baptist Church, called the ‘most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America’. She talks to Shaun Ley.

Holding placards outside the funerals of dead soldiers and celebrating the deaths of children after school massacres, Westboro Baptist Church has been called the ‘most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America’. From the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper had stood on the picket lines, and carried those hate-filled signs. But, as an adult firing off tweets to her online critics, Megan began to doubt. Can she really still regard those who abused her mind and taught her to hate, as her ‘beloved’ parents? She talks to Shaun Ley.

24 minutes

Last on

Thu 2 Jan 2020 04:30GMT

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Presenter Shaun Ley
Actor Megan Phelps-Roper

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