Shirley Phelps-Roper

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name = Shirley Phelps-Roper
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birth_name = Shirley Lynn Phelps
birth_date = Birth date and age|1957|10|31
birth_place = Topeka, Kansas
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residence = Southwest Churchill Road, Topeka, Kansas
other_names = Shirl
known_for = Aggressive religious preaching and controversial picketing campaigns with the WBC
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employer = Phelps Chartered
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religion = Westboro Baptist (Five-point Calvinism)
spouse = Brent Roper
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children = Samuel Phelps-Roper
Joshua Phelps-Roper (estranged)
Margy Phelps-Roper
Rebekah Phelps-Roper
Isaiah Phelps-Roper
Zacharias Phelps-Roper
Grace Phelps-Roper
Gabriel Phelps-Roper
Jonah Phelps-Roper
Noah Phelps-Roper
Luke Phelps-Roper
parents = Fred Phelps
Margie Simms
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Shirley Lynn Phelps-Roper (born October 31, 1957) is a member of the Westboro Baptist Church. She received both a B.A. in Criminal Justice and J.D. degree from Washburn University, and currently practices with Phelps Chartered, the Phelps family's law firm. [ [http://www.phelpschartered.com/ShirleyLPhelpsRoper.htm Phelps Chartered bio of Shirley Phelps-Roper] ] She has received media coverage on BBC, Fox News, "The Howard Stern Show", "The Adam Carolla Show" in addition to numerous appearances on podcasts including "Nobody Likes Onions", "Acorns & Merlot" and "Political Inversion" for her group's aggressive preaching and controversial campaigns such as the picketing the funerals of AIDS victims with signs such as "God hates fags" and funeral processions for American soldiers killed in combat. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6507971.stm "The Most Hated Family in America"; bbc.co.uk; March 30, 2007] ]

Phelps-Roper is the wife of Brent D. Roper and a mother of 11 children. Her oldest child, Sam, is not Roper's son by birth, and her second child, Josh, is estranged from the church. Besides her father Fred, she has been the most public spokesperson of the Westboro Baptist Church and answers many of the e-mails sent to the church in a column called "Dear Shirley"." [ [http://www.godhatesfags.com/featured/dearshirley/dearshirley.html Dear Shirley] ] Keith Allen revealed in his documentary on the WBC, "Keith Allen Will Burn In Hell", that Phelps-Roper has an illegitimate son, Sam, after it was uncovered by a local media student. [ [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2687366.ece Adams, Guy; "Serious documentary maker? Is Keith Allen having a laugh?"; "The Independent"; June 21, 2007] ]

Publicity

She has received increased media coverage following numerous television appearances, many of which have been on Fox News Channel, including interviews on "Hannity & Colmes", [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-STpW7jarrs Video of Sean Hannity's interview with Phelps-Roper] ] [ [http://media.pfaw.org/Right/PhelpsInterview.txt Transcript of "Hannity & Colmes" interview with Phelps-Roper] ] and with Julie Banderas. She has appeared on "The Tyra Banks Show" with two of her daughters, Megan Phelps-Roper and Rebekah Phelps-Roper. [ [http://www.godhateseveryoneexceptforus.com/phelpsontyra.html Phelps Daughters on "The Tyra Banks Show"] ] Phelps-Roper also frequently appeared on the "Adam Carolla Show" and "The Howard Stern Show" on Sirius Satellite Radio to debate people such as born-again Christian Stephen Baldwin, and Playboy Playmates. She has appeared on [http://www.godhatesshirleyphelps.com 88.7FM WNHU] with Zack Rosen, and has appeared on "Stephen Nolan's Late Show" on BBC Radio Five Live on 12 November 2006, alongside British journalist Matthew Parris.

Her family later became the subject of a program produced by the BBC called "The Most Hated Family in America"; a documentary presented by Louis Theroux, which later spawned several other interviews in the UK with Phelps-Roper, including a comical interview on April 12, 2007 with controversial talkSPORT host James Whale, who was called a pervert by Phelps-Roper after he suggested that she send her daughter over to him.

Phelps-Roper was arrested on June 5, 2007 on suspicion of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Police alleged that she allowed her son to trample an American flag while protesting the funeral of a soldier in Bellevue, Nebraska, which is a misdemeanor in the state. [ [http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/7854752.html "Phelps-Roper Arrested in Nebraska"; wibw.com] ] Phelps-Roper has announced her intent to challenge the constitutionality of the Nebraska statute, which may violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court in "Texas v. Johnson" and "United States v. Eichman". [ [http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/06/07/news/nebraska/4036d26d0014127d862572f300141368.txt "Funeral protester faces charges after child stomps on flag";] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.godhatesfags.com The Westboro Baptist Church Home Page]
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