Unfollow is a story about the rarest thing of all: a person changing their mind.
In November 2012, at the age of twenty-six, she left the church, her family, and her life behind. From her first public protest, aged five, to her instrumental role in spreading the church's invective via social media, her formative years brought their difficulties. Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church - the fire-and-brimstone religious sect at once aggressively homophobic and anti-Semitic, rejoiceful for AIDS and natural disasters, and notorious for its picketing the funerals of American soldiers. Yet in other ways it was the precise opposite: a revolving door of TV camera crews and documentary makers, a world of extreme discipline, of siblings vanishing in the night. A loving home, shared with squabbling siblings, overseen by devoted parents. It was an upbringing in many ways normal.
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