But as she matured and began to question and bristle against some of the church's tenets, she was unceremoniously cast out, and permanently cut off from her family. She traveled the country as an active and vocal picketer, spouting the church's message of hate at public events, with shockingly offensive signs promoting their agenda. Over the next seven years, Lauren would try to assimilate their extreme beliefs. military, the Catholic Church, homosexuals, and more. The WBC's modus operandi is its aggressive and vitriolic campaigns against anyone and everyone it deems immoral or sinful-the U.S. There, Lauren found a new community offering both a warm welcome and a complex set of rules and regulations, including curbs on her teenage freedom and punishments meted out unjustly.

At 14, Lauren was moved with her family to Kansas to live in the Westboro compound. Lauren Drain's childhood seemed average American, but when her liberal-minded father set out to film a documentary about the audacious and cultish hate group, the Westboro Baptist Church, he found himself seduced. But, as she matured she started to ask questions, challenging the core belief system she had so eagerly adopted, which led her to be excommunicated from the church, cutting her off from her family and friends.'In the tradition of Escape and Stolen innocence, the first look behind the curtains of the Westboro Baptist Church, by a young woman cast out from its clutches'-Provided by the publisher. As Lauren assimilated to the church’s extreme beliefs, she became an active member and vocal picketer. The WBC is proudly anti-gay, racist, anti-Semitic, and anti practically everything and everyone, including some of their own.Ī member of WBC from 2001 to 2008, Lauren was first brought into the group at age 15 by her father, a once secular and liberal man who became indoctrinated into the church when working and producing a documentary about WBC. Lauren Drain is a former member of the extremist hate group and cult, Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), who today is using her voice to “try and lead by example, with love, compassion and an open mind.” Your are probably familiar with the church’s antics, which have been regularly covered on the news with images of members protesting funerals of soldiers, spewing messages of hate and anger in front of grieving families.

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