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How Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist came to question its beliefs
- tomlock 11y agoA few years ago I was wondering if the ubiquity of the internet would lead to less or more ideological balkanization. I thought, maybe it would let people find other hateful niche people to be aligned with, and would allow them to be congratulated on their beliefs and have them reinforced. This seems like a step in the other direction. Thanks Internet!
- gobengo 11y agoI'm from Topeka, Kansas. My older sister went to Topeka West with Megan Phelps-Roper. I went to elementary school with her younger brothers (cousins?) Tim and Isaiah. I can only attest to the latter but all the kids were good people. They just happened to be dragged out to the corners on the weekend to picket. I never really understood the signs they held anyway.
- digitalzombie 11y agoI love how the whole story is basically love and questioning authority saved them. CJ seems like a swell guy and Megan and Grace seems to be doing well. Good for them, the less hateful people in the work the better the world is. edit: Also wow, I'm not really a twitter user myself, but this story really paint how twitter is really a thing.
- dankohn1 11y agoI loved this story. How brave to go against everything you've been taught, which was only possible after being exposed to the wider world.