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Shirley Phelps-Roper is the daughter of Fred Phelps, the leader of the Westboro Baptist Church. She has received recent media coverage in Fox News, The Howard Stern Show, The Adam Corolla Show) for her aggressive preaching and campaigns. Phelps-Roper received both B.A. and J.D. degrees from Washburn University and currently practices with Phelps Chartered, the Phelps family's law firm .
Following the murders of four Amish schoolgirls in Pennsylvania, Westboro Baptist Church announced that it would be picketing the funeral. Having learned of this, radio talk show host and Fox News analyst Mike Gallagher offered them air-time on his radio show in exchange for not protesting at the girl's funerals. They accepted, and Shirley Phelps-Roper and her sister were granted an hour of air-time on the show. Shirley was asked by an interviewer for Fox News if she thought that the girls deserved to die. She responded: "Yes. It's kinder to kill them in their youth than it is for you to let them be full grown, and full-on - to make their stint in Hell so much more painful.".
Shirley is the wife of Brent D. Roper and the most public spokesperson in various forms of media of the Westboro Baptist Church. She is a mother of 11 children.
She has received increased media coverage and popularity following numerous television appearances (many of which have been on Fox News). She recently appeared on The Tyra Banks Show with two of her daughters.
Phelps-Roper is the most widely known of Fred Phelps' children, but her many other siblings include:
- Brother: Fred Phelps, Jr. (lawyer, employed by Kansas Department of Corrections)
- Brother: Mark Phelps (business executive, estranged from Phelps family)
- Sister: Katherine Phelps (lawyer, license to practice law suspended)
- Sister: Margie Phelps (lawyer, employed by Kansas Department of Corrections)
- Brother: Nathan "Nate" Phelps (business executive, estranged from Phelps family)
- Brother: Jonathon B. Phelps (lawyer)
- Sister: Rebekah Phelps-Davis (lawyer)
- Sister: Elizabeth Phelps (lawyer, works at homeless shelter)
- Brother: Timothy Phelps (lawyer, employed by Shawnee County Department of Corrections)
- Sister: Dorotha Bird (lawyer, estranged from Phelps family)
- Sister: Rachel Phelps (lawyer)
- Sister: Abigail Phelps (lawyer)
Phelps and many of her children have appeared numerous times on the Howard Stern Show under the name "The God Hates Fags family", including in bits such as "Hollywierd Squares" and "Freaky Family Feud" against a team of gay contestants.
Phelps also frequently appears on the Adam Carolla Show to debate people such as born-again Christian Stephen Baldwin to Playboy Playmates.
She appeared on the Stephen Nolan's Late Show on BBC Radio Five Live on 12 November 2006 along with British journalist Matthew Parris.
See also
References
External links
- God Hates Fags (Westboro Baptist Church site)
- Phelps Chartered official site
- Hannity & Colmes interview with Phelps-Roper
- Audio interview with Westboro Church spokesperson Shirley Phelps-Roper
- Various videos involving Phelps at Youtube