Megan Phelps-Roper

Generally, people don't change their minds about fundamentally deeply held beliefs; it doesn't happen in an instant - it's a process.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I will say, this is something, this praying for people to die thing, that's something that I came to believe was unscriptural.…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I always joke about how I get excited to go to the grocery store without permission.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

In the era of Donald Trump the echoes of Westboro are undeniable: the division of the world into Us and Them; the…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I had grown up seeing people in school where I felt like I needed to keep them at arm's length, or on…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

How could we claim to love our neighbour while at the same time praying for God to destroy them?

— Megan Phelps-Roper

My church's antics were such that we were constantly at odds with the world. That reinforced our 'otherness' on a daily basis.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I don't like to say I'm not a believer because I still feel like a believer in a lot of things, primarily…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

When we lose hope that there is a possibility of reaching the other side - I don't even like to say the…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

We played video games and read books, and we went to public school. And yeah, we went to amusement parks. We did…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

My life was forever changed by people who took the time and had the patience to learn my story and to share…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

There's so much power in seeing the possibility of change.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

My family thought - and thinks - very seriously about words. About language and what it means and how it shapes us…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

We were supposed to be able to use the Bible's words to explain what we were doing, and if we couldn't do…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

It really bugs me that Twitter gets such a bad rep.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

Whenever people would speculate about the death of my grandfather it was always this very retributive thing. That they were going to…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

There's a learned helplessness for a lot of people who are leaving Westboro because you're not allowed to have any kind of…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

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

Arguing is fun when you think you have all the answers.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I do send messages to my family; I send letters in the mail, and when I'm in town, I almost always leave…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

Twitter helped others to see me as a human being. And showed me their humanity, too.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I don't think that, if you do everything else in your life right and you happen to be gay, you're automatically going…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

Whatever state you find yourself in, you're supposed to be content there.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I went to my mother right before I was set to go protest my first soldier's funeral and asked my mother: 'I…

— Megan Phelps-Roper