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Megan Phelps-Roper: Leaving 'America's most obnoxious hate group'

Megan Phelps-Roper: Leaving 'America's most obnoxious hate group'

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A former Westboro Baptist Church member discusses leaving the group

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Holding placards outside the funerals of dead soldiers,
celebrating the death of children after school massacres:
Westboro Baptist Church has been called the "most obnoxious and
rabid hate group in America". From the age of 5, 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. Shaun Ley speaks to Megan
Phelps-Roper in London. Can Megan really still regard those who
abused her mind, teaching her to hate and to pray for more
deaths, as Mum and Dad?