Her Grandfather Founded the Westboro Baptist Church. Twitter Helped Her Leave It.

To understand her own extreme beliefs, Megan Phelps-Roper began listening to people who reached out to her on social media

Lyz Lenz
GEN
Published in
9 min readOct 21, 2019

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MMegan Phelps-Roper’s conversion began on Twitter. Phelps-Roper is the granddaughter of Fred Phelps, the founder of Westboro

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Lyz Lenz
GEN
Writer for

Author of God Land. Columnist for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. The book Belabored is forthcoming from Bold Type Books in August of 2020.