If you guys didn't read this, you should! Fascinating links to Nate's story in it, and a link to his neice's AMA-- she is still a member, and people talk Scripture with her. I did not realize the WBC are really Calvinists. I didn't know anything about them except the shitty protests and the counterprotests.
That was extremely hard to read. I didn't know before though that the group was basically a single family (and 2 other small ones). That actually makes them less awful if that's possible because it seems like they haven't been able to really pull any new blood in, which is good that they should die off as a group eventually. At least their recruiting doesn't seem to be successful.