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me to completely condemn my family and the epigraph of my book unfollow is this line from the great gatsbythat says reserving judgment as a matter of infinite hope. to me that encapsulates the idea of grace and it's what people did for me when i was at westborough.they saw me, they were willing to suspend their judgments long enough to show me empathy and compassion at a time when i seem to deter rizzoli's that's what changed, that's what i was able it allowed them to get through to me. that's how i view my family now i try to give them the same grace and compassion and empathy that people showed me and i hope they can be reached as well. >> megan phelps-roper, can you walk us through a couple steps christianity to pray for more dead children or protesting it at a soldier's funeral. >> the funeral protests, westborough, i was 19 years old when we started protesting soldiers funerals and this is a question i asked my mother, a change in our ministry. we had protested funerals before but specifically soldiers funerals and was asking you need to understand why we are doing this because i'm in

a line from the great gatsby says reserving judgment is a matter of infinite hope. to me that encapsulates the idea of grace. it is what people did for me when i was at westboro. they saw me. they were willing to suspend their judgment long enough to show me empathy and compassion at a time when i seemed to deserve it the least. and that was what changed. that's what was able -- it allowed them to get through to me and to change my heart and mind, and so it's -- that's how i view my family now. i try to give them the same grace and compassion and empathy that people showed me, and i hope that they can be reached as well. >> megan phelps roper, can you walk us through a couple steps connecting christianity to pray for more dead children or protesting at a soldier's funeral? >> yeah, so the funeral protests, so westboro -- i was 19 years olds when we started protesting soldiers' funerals. this was question i asked my mother. it was a change in our ministry. we had protested funerals before but specifically soldiers' funerals, and i was asking, i need to understand why

and so this is where the epigraph of the book is this line from the great gatsby that says, "reservings for me a posture of grace, it is the picture of grace. it's the idea of seeing people as being on a journey, and that there is hope for them to grow and evolve and change and be better, and i believe that is possible of my family. so, if you want me to say that my family are... i will absolutely say without question and without caveat that they do evil things sometimes, and that is extremely painful, to look back at my own past and know that i was doing evil things, cruel things, unmercifulthings. there are lots of children still in the westboro baptist church, your fellow members of the extended family, never mind others who have brought their children in since they've joined up. do you think the authorities, knowing what they know now, should intervene? that is a really... you know, ithink, specifically in terms of, just because of the first amendment in the united states, i don't think they have any standing to intervene when it comes to the doctrines. i do think the physical puni