The church had fewer than 100 congregants, most of whom were Fred Phelps’s family members. He and his followers believed God had handpicked them for the “eternal conflict between the righteous and the wicked.” It was their obligation - and their key to heaven - to rebuke outsiders for betraying God’s word. Years later, she would become one of Westboro’s most adamant defenders, but on that day she was simply the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the church’s founder, pastor and fire-and-brimstone provocateur. 1:32),” members of the Westboro Baptist Church began what would become a vicious, decades-long campaign against homosexuals, Jews, Muslims and other perceived sinners.Īmong the picketers was 5-year-old Megan Phelps-Roper, holding a sign she could not read. Holding handmade signs that read “Gays Are Worthy of Death (ROM. In 1991, a breakaway church in Topeka, Kan., began picketing at a nearby park popular with gay men.
UNFOLLOW A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church By Megan Phelps-Roper
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