I left Westboro — and now I’m fighting for gay equality

Her family runs the most hateful church in America. But after years of being brainwashed, Libby Phelps Alvarez is now championing civil rights for all
Libby Phelps Alvarez was raised as a member of the Westboro Baptist Church, a vitriolic group founded by her grandfather, Fred Phelps. Famed for picketing funerals of soldiers with anti-gay signs, the Topeka, Kan.,-based organization, with its estimated 70 members, has become infamous for its extremist hate speech.
Four years ago, Alvarez, now 30, left the church — and she is now supporting Planting Peace, a nonprofit that recently bought a house across from her old church and painted it with gay-pride-themed rainbow stripes. Alvarez plans to work with the group’s founder, Aaron Jackson, on a new anti-bullying initiative — as far as one can come from a childhood of waving signs reading, “God hates f?-?gs.” A physical therapist, she lives with her husband, Logan, in Lawrence, Kan., close to her hometown. She tells The Post’s Sara Stewart her story.
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/left_westboro_and_now_fighting_for_1rEvK8bYM7op0rfelzRwKP

I don’t really think my personality has changed much, but I think my ideas on life have changed. When I had first left, if I would see a homosexual couple, I would scrunch up my nose. Then it got to where I still thought it was wrong, but I wouldn’t say or do anything. And now it’s to the point where it doesn’t matter to me. I don’t really care if somebody is gay. I know that I want to be good to people. I still believe in God. I just think that he’s more forgiving.

Interesting read on how she was raised and tidbits like Phelps was at one time a Dem!