For all of her adult life and much of her childhood,
Megan Phelps-Roper picketed funerals, condemned gays, and said she
earnestly believed that most Americans were destined for hell.
But on Wednesday, the 27-year-old granddaughter of Westboro Baptist
Church founder Fred Phelps publicly said goodbye to all that.
“We know that we’ve done and said things that hurt people,” Megan and her sister Grace wrote in a statement
announcing their split from the church. “Inflicting pain on others
wasn’t the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren’t so,
and regret that hurt.”
The Westboro Baptist Church may be the most controversial religious
group in the country. By some accounts, it’s not a religious group at
all -- the Southern Poverty Law Center has called it “the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in America,” and a White House petition urging the government to label it as such earned more than 330,000 signatures in January.
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