Head Full of Doubt: Two Young Phelps Leave Westboro's World of Hate

Two granddaughters of infamous crank Fred Phelps, heir apparent Megan Phelps-Roper and her sister Grace, have announced online their departure from the bile-spewing Westboro "church." Megan - once described in a profile as "a peppy, goofy, happy" young woman who believes "you and the rest of this filthy, perverted nation will be spending a long fiery eternity burning in hell" - acknowledges that "we’ve done and said things that hurt people" and after so much hate asks a tough question: "Where do you go from there?" "In a city in a state in the center of a country lives a group of people who believe they are the center of the universe; they know Right and Wrong, and they are Right....As parents, they are attentive and engaged, and the children learn their lessons well. This is my framework."

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