Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist Church: An heir to hate!

[Logical]

What a completely horrible woman and horrible family. This just goes to show that brainwashing children is so easy. The ones with the guts to break free should be proud.

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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.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/19/3275645/megan-phelps-roper-an-heir-to.html

[Brickbat]

1. I understand the setup in this lead, but "girl" for a 25-year-old is really a bit much.

[dems_rightnow]

2. Can they hold thermselves together?

When the patriarch finally passes away, I wonder if they can hold themselves together. Without his brand of "charisma", I have a feeling that they will finally implode.

Or maybe that's just wishful thinking.

[Brickbat]

3. Also, if you want to learn more about Nate Phelps (who left the "church" at 18 in 1976), you can go

to his website, http://natephelps.com/.

Here's an excerpt from his book. It's about the moment he left for good, and is harrowing.

http://natephelps.com/story

[Zorra]

4. Poor thing. She never even had a chance to have a heart and to know

love. The hate propaganda that has been injected into her for her entire life must fill every core of her consciousness.

Imagine being born and raised in the bowels of dark, cold, hellish cult of Westboro ignorance and hatred.

It's frightening.

Raised to be a spiritual Michael Myers.

[Brickbat]

5. Her quotes are so sad. I hope she realizes in the next couple years that there is a better way, and

she'll have to bust out of there to get it.

[MuseRider]

6. Copied from another thread.

Sorry, I think this is important enough to post again.

Why was this article written?

It sounds like a kinder, gentler version of the Phelps Family.

I guess us ignoring them and trying to let their message disappear is not going to work since everyone else in the freaking world comes for a week visit or lets them host their radio shows while they go on vacation or writes articles like this or continue to make movies referencing them. See? She really is a normal and a nice girl. She says bad things but hey, she sang in the school musical!

Was there a point this article was trying to make?

Damn it people, we here in and around Topeka deal with these people multiple times a day. Every day. I went to a show just last week and I had to twist my way through those signs and the singing (oh the singing) just to get up the steps to the entrance. Everything my organization does becomes a full fledged fight with these people, in fact almost everything everyone does here that is an attempt to move this provincial, stodgy city into the last century becomes a fight.

I guess I am sick and tired of everyone trying to own a piece of them and tell the world about them. I went to kindergarten and all the way up with Fred Jr.. Let them and their church die already. They will find something else, just like they did when the gay community protests were no longer as effective. Remember the big outrage? I saw the first God Loves IED signs and hoped that would stop a month before it hit the press but once it did they were catapulted right back into international attention. Please leave these vile people alone to stew in their own sewage. Let their message fade away, let them escalate until there is no where else for them to go. They are not yet and most likely will never be violent, their small attempts were not successful. The only thing that they love besides their version of God, attention. They are not trying to save anyone, they just want the press because it gets them the money from like minded assholes to survive.

Think about it. An LGBT child kills him/herself and they rejoice. A soldier gets his legs blown off and they rejoice. A community gets wiped out, they rejoice. They don't give a shit, they are not trying to save anyone. It is a business thriving on pain of others. Always has been. Let them die and for God's sake stop letting them guest host a popular morning radio show. IOW STOP doing their work for them.

[Logical]

7. Sorry for the dup post! Also, I totally see your point. I agree. n-t

[MuseRider]

That is not a problem,

I just think this article was vile and useless unless the point was to make the next generation that is coming into the leadership roles look mainstream.

[MuseRider]

9. Speaking of dupe posts, sorry.

[MuseRider]

10. Oops, forgot the third one!

[Zorra]

8. "It is a business thriving on pain of others."

And most everyone can see who the Chairman of the Board is.