A Florida man named Aaron Jackson has bought a house across the street from Westboro Baptist Church HQ in Kansas and has turned it into an LGBT center. The house, appropriately named Equality House has already been painted in gloriously bright rainbow colors. Located directly across from the Westboro Baptist Church, the House is a symbol [...]
Lauren Drain, the daughter of Westboro Baptist Church PR man, Steve Drain, has a new book out called Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church, about her 7 years or so living among the members of the Westboro Baptist Church. In the Inside Edition video above, she recounts the moment when she realized [...]
In an amazing post over on Medium, Jeff Chu, an editor at Fast Company, writes about the story of how one of Westboro Baptist Church’s most prominent members and active social media crusaders, Megan Phelps-Roper, has left the church she so adamantly supported since her childhood. The 180-degree turnaround is eye-opening as it’s one of [...]
This is the 2nd documentary I’ve watch about the Westboro Baptist Church today (the previous one coming from VICE) and I just don’t get it. What drives these people to be so inhumane, so robotic, so unloving, and so delusional about the faith that they swear their entire existence by. I’ll echo the BBC’s Louis [...]
I’m telling you, VICE is doing some of the best reporting out there by any media company. This intimate and in-depth 2-part interview speaks to Steve Drain, the Westboro Baptist Church’s main PR man, and to a couple who left the WBC and gets the low-down on what drives this “church” to hate. It’s long, [...]
This interview is nothing short of amazing. I have nothing but disgust for the Westboro Baptist Church.
