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Once I saw that we were not the ultimate arbiters of divine truth but flawed human beings, I couldn't pretend otherwise. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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Assuming ill motives almost instantly cuts us off from truly understanding why someone does and believes as they do. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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In the era of Donald Trump the echoes of Westboro are undeniable: the division of the world into Us and Them; the vilification of compromise; the knee-jerk expulsion of insiders who violate group orthodoxy; and the demonization of outsiders and the inability to substantively engage with their ideas, because we simply cannot step outside of our own. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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As a member of Westboro Baptist Church, I became a fixture on picket lines across the country. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles - only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and came to me with pointed questions tempered with kindness and humor. They approached me as a human being, and that was more transformative than two full decades of outrage, disdain, and violence. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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Empathy is not a betrayal of one's cause. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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Showing your own righteousness by pointing out someone's unrighteousness, the race to the bottom, the transgressions getting smaller and smaller and smaller but still treated with the same level of intolerance and condemnation, all of that stuff, even as I say it I am talking about Twitter but I am thinking about Westboro. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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Our duty was to declare God's standards to the world: no adultery, no fornication, no gays, no idolatry. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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When people are in the thrall of poisonous ideology, it's really not all about deliberate ill will, or inherent hatred, or a lack of intelligence. It's about the unbelievable destructiveness and staying power of bad ideas and about finding ways to equip people with the tools they need to fight them. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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I remember feeling like we at WBC were a persecuted minority, triumphant in the face of evil people 'worshipping the dead' as we picketed funerals or rejoiced at the destruction of the Twin Towers. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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I was a blue-eyed, chubby-cheeked five-year-old when I joined my family on the picket line for the first time. My mom made me leave my dolls in the minivan. I'd stand on a street corner in the heavy Kansas humidity, surrounded by a few dozen relatives, with my tiny fists clutching a sign that I couldn't read yet: 'Gays are worthy of death.' - Megan Phelps-Roper
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My life was forever changed by people who took the time and had the patience to learn my story and to share theirs with me. They forsook judgment and came to me with kindness and empathy and the impact of that decision was huge. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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All I could do was try to build a new life and find a way somehow to repair some of the damage. People had every reason to doubt my sincerity, but most of them didn't. And - given my history, it was more than I could've hoped for - forgiveness and the benefit of the doubt. It still amazes me. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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When we engage people across ideological divides, asking questions helps us map the disconnect between our differing points of view. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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There's a learned helplessness for a lot of people who are leaving Westboro because you're not allowed to have any kind of independence when you are there so a lot of people don't have practical life skills. - Megan Phelps-Roper
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