Phelps-Roper, Megan: - Megan Phelps-roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church: the Topeka, Kansas religious group known internationally for its daily public protests against members of the LGBT community, Jews, the military, other Christians, and countless others.
She lives in South Dakota..
Since then she has become an advocate for people and ideas she was taught to despise - especially the value of empathy in dialogue across ideological lines.
Dialogue with enemies online proved instrumental in her deradicalization, and she left the church and her entire way of life in November 2012.
As a child, teenager, and early twenty-something, she participated in the picketing almost daily and spearheaded the use of social media in the church.
Phelps-Roper, Megan: - Megan Phelps-roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church: the Topeka, Kansas religious group known internationally for its daily public protests against members of the LGBT community, Jews, the military, other Christians, and countless others
