Reason won out--this time.

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He is about as sincere and down-to-earth a person as anyone could be. Considering his upbringing and background, I think he is to be commended for his ability to rationally present his experiences.

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this is great.

This hit close to home with me because the side of the family I grew up with were abusive, homophobic, racist, fundamentalist evangelical Christians. I left when I was 17 and never went back.

Not to take away anything that this man has to say...but is that a Compaq laptop from about 1995 running Windows 3.1 sitting on the desk?

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Promote this Quality interview - Thanks for bringing this to us Lann.
He is about as sincere and down-to-earth a person as anyone could be. Considering his upbringing and background, I think he is to be commended for his ability to rationally present his experiences.


Some people are sooo like that I never get it. Some are messed up forever because of their childhood and such...others and it's very few just go "Whoa that was crazy...well done with that shit" and drop it like a bad habit. Good for him...too many people dwell for to long.

Was really pleased to see this was upvoted 4 times just while i watched it...

Very happy to do so as well.

Impressive gentleman... defiantly agree. I hope the things he does and says cause a deep and constant pain every cursed day Fred Phelps has left on this planet... and if he helps others while doing that... total bonus!

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and worth every minute

Invocations (long) cannot be called by Mekanikal because Mekanikal is not privileged - sorry.

The Phelps won their high court case recently. They're all lawyers for a reason.

I grew up in a Southern Baptist church myself. Though not nearly as extreme as the Phelps' church, I was in a program called Bible Drill where we studied major verses, memorized the books of the Bible, learned the proper way to hold the Bible, and learned the distance between each book of the Bible so that we could quickly and accurately turn to the precise book then locate the verse. We were then sent to compete with other churches to decide who was the ultimate in Bible knowledge and Bible form.

I'm pretty certain this is normal for your average Christian family that's really on fire for the Lord. Then they send their young teenagers and kids off to their segregated Christian-denomination-of-choice youth camp where you have fun, pray together, cry about your tormented existence on this temporary plane of existence, hug a lot, then listen to witty sermons and corny camp/church songs... Or you say FUCK THAT and ditch the sermons to go hang out with some hotties and whoever snuck pot into camp, play hours of ping pong, then sneak into the girl's cabins at night and throw water balloons at them to wake em up and see them in their undies.

Unfortunately this sad fella was born a Phelps and so now instead of a silly memory of how he avoided becoming another sheep in the flock, he has a traumatic tale of abuse and eventual escape.