Return to Westboro. Louis revisits the toxic Phelps family – who have lost their leader.

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.
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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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