Louis Theroux: Surviving America's Most Hated Family

Season 1

It’s been 13 years since the British filmmaker first encountered Westboro Baptist Church and the Phelps – a family whose noxious doctrine of hate against gay people and US soldiers made them infamous. Quite a lot has changed for the community in Trump’s America: Pastor Fred Phelps died in 2014 amid rumors of mental illness and excommunication. What happens when a hate group loses its patriarch?

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S1 E1 - Louis Theroux: Surviving America's Most Hated Family
July 13, 2019
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It’s been 13 years since the British filmmaker first encountered Westboro Baptist Church and the Phelps – a family whose noxious doctrine of hate against gay people and US soldiers made them infamous. Quite a lot has changed for the community in Trump’s America: Pastor Fred Phelps died in 2014 amid rumors of mental illness and excommunication. What happens when a hate group loses its patriarch?
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