Nathan Phelps | |
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 Phelps speaking at QED, Manchester, UK in 2014 | |
| Born | November 22, 1958 Topeka, Kansas, U.S. |
| Nationality | Canadian-American |
| Known for | LGBT rights activist, Atheist activist, Calgary branch director for the Centre for Inquiry Canada, son of former Westboro Baptist Church pastor Fred Phelps |
| Children | 6 (3 stepchildren) |
| Father | Fred Phelps |
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Nathan Phelps (born November 22, 1958) is an American-born Canadian author, LGBT rights activist,[1] and public speaker on the topics of religion and child abuse. He is the sixth-born of the 13 children of Fred Phelps, from whom he – along with three of his siblings – had been estranged since his 18th birthday in 1976 until his father's death in 2014.[2] Phelps left his family home when he turned 18, and permanently left the Westboro Baptist Church four years later in 1980. He has since publicly censured the group.[3]
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