“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.”

American political activist

Megan Phelps-Roper is an American political activist who was formerly a member of, and spokesperson for, the Westboro Baptist Church, a Hyper-Calvinist Christian sect widely regarded as a hate group. Raised in Topeka, Kansas, she grew up in the church compound with her family. Her mother is Shirley Phelps-Roper, and her grandfather was the church founder, Fred Phelps. As a child, she was taught the church’s doctrine and took part in its public pickets against homosexuality, the American response to the September 11 attacks, and the funerals of soldiers who died in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. In 2009, she began using Twitter to promote the church’s views. Later, exchanges with Twitter users, along with changes to the church’s internal decision-making, led her to question the beliefs she had been raised with.