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27-year-old granddaughter leaves Westboro Baptist: ‘We’ve done things to hurt people’
‘We’ve done things that hurt people’ says 27-year-old, who is leaving anti-gay organisation with her sister Grace One of the most prominent members of the Westboro Baptist church has left it after spending her life as part of the fervently anti-gay movement. Megan Phelps-Roper, who looked after social media for…
Westboro Baptist candidate for Kansas Board of Education only raises $5
A Kansas State Board of Education candidate linked to the Westboro Baptist Church only raised a measly $5 for his campaign and doesn’t plan to spend it. Jack Wu’s financial disclosure report, published by the Kansas Secretary of State, shows the Republican candidate only raised $5 from July 27, 2012…
Westboro Baptist: Same sex marriage legalization is ‘a fait accompli’
Jonathan Phelps, a member of the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, said Wednesday that the legalization of same sex marriage in the United States was inevitable. He explained on The David Pakman Show that marriage equality was a “fait accompli” because the Supreme Court was going to “mandate” it soon.…
Students form human wall to protect soldier’s funeral from Westboro Baptist protesters
Students and alumni of Texas A&M University formed what they called a “maroon wall” of volunteers around Central Baptist Church in College Park, Texas on Thursday, shielding the funeral of Army Lieutenant Colonel Roy Lin Tisdale from a group of protesters from the notorious Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas. College…
Westboro Baptist follower enters Kansas Board of Education race
A man running for the Kansas Board of Education declares on his website that he has decided to seek public office in “the evil city of Topeka” after “seeing the light of Westboro Baptist Church,” one of the nation’s most notorious hate groups. Jack Wu, a California native, writes that…
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