An Heir to Hate: Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist Church
December 6, 2011 1 Comment
As conflicted as I am about giving these sociopaths an ounce of publicity, I’m going to err on the side of shining a light on them for the cockroaches that they are. They are an excellent example of how fundamentalist religion can be used to hate on an extreme level.
When I lived in Indiana, they came to protest at the funeral of a local soldier; when we went to protest them (primarily to shield the mourners from them) we were warned by the law enforcement not to get too close, as their sole mission was really to generate lawsuits – for the money. It’s the family business. Here’s Dugan Arnett’s story of the next generation:
In an ordinary town, in a quiet neighborhood, in a beige two-story house, a girl named Megan lives with her parents and eight siblings.
She is 25, with a cheeky smile. Tall and tan and athletic, she has long, curly hair that tumbles down her shoulders in thick locks. Her voice is bubbly, with a pinch of country twang, and when she is talking about something she likes, she leans forward in her seat and says “Ohmygosh!” before unleashing a stream of syllables that come pouring out on top of each other. She is polite. If you were to stop by the house some afternoon, she would probably ask if you wanted to stay for pizza that night.
She loves her iPhone and the band Mumford & Sons and the Showtime series “Dexter,” which is about a blood-splatter specialist for the Miami Metro Police Department who also happens to be a serial killer — a complex character both good and evil. She went to high school at Topeka West and got straight A’s. She went to college at Washburn University and got straight A’s. She thought about going to law school, sat down to write her admissions essay and decided she wasn’t all that keen on becoming a lawyer. So she joined the family business.
She is peppy, goofy and, by all accounts, happy.
Oh, and one other thing about Megan: She wants to make it perfectly clear that you and the rest of this filthy, perverted nation will be spending a long, fiery eternity burning in hell.
Read the rest of the story here: Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist Church: An heir to hate – KansasCity.com.
About Jack Jamison
The members of Westboro Baptist Church make me sick every time I hear about their protests and the other stupid things they do. I am a Christian and in the “Baptist” circle. These men and women of Westboro Baptist Church do nothing but make Christians look bad and Baptists look even worse. Christ came to seek and to save the lost, not to hold signs and say “Fags go to Hell!” Thats NOT the way Jesus did it and is not the way His Word tells us to do it today.