Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes


We were supposed to be able to use the Bible's words to explain what we were doing, and if we couldn't do that, then we shouldn't be doing it.


Citations

Phelps-Roper, Megan. Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

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Megan Phelps-Roper
Megan Phelps-Roper
  • Born: January 31, 1986
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Activist

Megan Phelps-Roper is an American political activist and former member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church. Her mother is Shirley Phelps-Roper, and her grandfather is the church's founder, Fred Phelps. She grew up in Topeka, Kansas, in a compound with other members of the church. She was taught the Westboro Baptist Church doctrine, and at the age of 13, she was baptized as a member of the church.