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Former Westboro member explores Bible for atheists in Free Press talk

Phelps-Roper, who protested funerals as a child, joins a seventy-minute Free Press conversation on atheism and scripture; the viewing runs longer than most commutes.

On air: Hank Ledger, Dale Bearman and Vera Bullock on Wake Up, America
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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA conversation this morning with Megan Phelps-Roper, who spent her childhood protesting funerals with the Westboro Baptist Church and now says she cannot stop reading the Bible.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Free Press is running the seventy-minute talk, and it centers on a Bible story she thinks even atheists should read, whatever they believe.

  3. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorIt's a long sit, but a person who left that world and kept the book has something to say about it.

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