TY  - BOOK
AU  - Phelps-Roper,Megan
TI  - Unfollow: a journey from hatred to hope, leaving the Westboro Baptist Church 
SN  - 9781787477995 (pbk.) :
AV  - BX6495 
U1  - 286.5092 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - riverrun
KW  - Phelps-Roper, Megan,
KW  - Westboro Baptist Church (Topeka, Kan.)
KW  - Baptists
KW  - Kansas
KW  - Biography
KW  - ukslc
N2  - It was an upbringing in many ways normal. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world of extreme discipline, of siblings vanishing in the night. Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and notorious for its picketing the funerals of American soldiers. From her first public protest, aged five, to her instrumental role in spreading the church's invective via social media, her formative years brought their difficulties. But being reviled was not one of them. She was preaching God's truth. She was, in her words, 'all in'. In November 2012, at the age of twenty-six, she left the church
ER  -