Nathan Phelps
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, 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 had been estranged since his 18th birthday in 1976 until his father's death in 2014. 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.