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Megan Phelps-Roper On Loving And Leaving The Westboro Baptist Church

Steve Munsen
Lori Walsh & Megan Phelps-Roper

In The Moment ... October 4, 2019 Show 673 Hour 1

Megan Phelps-Roper grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church protesting at military funerals and celebrating AIDS as a plague against LGBT people. Then, through radical empathy facilitated by people reaching out to her on social media, she left the church and changed her mind. Megan Phelps-Roper sits down with SDPB's Lori Walsh at the South Dakota Festival of Books.

Arts and Entertainment reporting on SDPB is supported by the South Dakota Education Association

Lori Walsh is the host and senior producer of In the Moment.