How Megan Phelps-Roper of Westboro Baptist came to question its beliefs

I&#x27;m from Topeka, Kansas. My older sister went to Topeka West with Megan Phelps-Roper. I went to elementary school with her younger brothers (cousins?) Tim and Isaiah.<p>I can only attest to the latter but all the kids were good people. They just happened to be dragged out to the corners on the weekend to picket. I never really understood the signs they held anyway.

A few years ago I was wondering if the ubiquity of the internet would lead to less or more ideological balkanization.<p>I thought, maybe it would let people find other hateful niche people to be aligned with, and would allow them to be congratulated on their beliefs and have them reinforced.<p>This seems like a step in the other direction. Thanks Internet!

I love how the whole story is basically love and questioning authority saved them.<p>CJ seems like a swell guy and Megan and Grace seems to be doing well. Good for them, the less hateful people in the work the better the world is.<p>edit:<p>Also wow, I&#x27;m not really a twitter user myself, but this story really paint how twitter is really a thing.

I loved this story. How brave to go against everything you&#x27;ve been taught, which was only possible after being exposed to the wider world.