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Having left Westboro Baptist, Phelps-Roper daughters on “incredible” journey

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March 7, 2014

You've probably heard me talk about Westboro Baptist Church before. From “>anti-Semitic email to saying a white supremacist who murdered six Sikhs was “>this story was worth a mention.

It's from The Jewish Journal's Jared Sichel (and, based on the @replies I used to get on Twitter from one of Fred Phelps' daughter, the place of publication alone must have sent the Westboro leadership into a frenzy).

The story is about two sisters, Megan and Grace Phelps-Roper, who left Westboro Baptist and have attended Jewlicious the past two years:

When the sisters left the church, and their family, they were immediately cut off from their parents, siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins. They said that they had just assumed they would live in their parents’ home forever…

“We both still feel pretty lost,” Megan admitted. “But we’re getting there. The journey is incredible.”

That idea of journey, by itself, would have been totally foreign to the Phelps-Roper sisters (as in the “>“lying,” “hateful,” “covenant breaking,” “faithless” Christ-killers.

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