![]() I thought if we were going around telling everyone about the end times, we might want to know all of the details or at least get it down. There would be parts of the Revelation that we couldn't explain, and the Revelation is a pretty intense book of the end times. That's an example of how we weren't didn't have a full answer. And I also knew there were verses that talked about you should judge, but judge righteously.I knew there were these conflicting verses, and I wanted to know how we would justify that, since we were being so judgmental. _LAUREN DRAIN:_I knew there were verses that talked about not judging. What wasn't clicking for you that sparked you to begin asking questions of the WBC in the first place? _GLAMOUR:_I know you said in the book that you would go to your Bible study and you'd start noticing all of these inconsistencies and all of these things that didn't make sense, and you'd want to ask all these questions, but you weren't in a place that you felt that you could. One of the things that struck me was when we started to picket small children's funerals. I didn't want to have anything to do with it anymore. We would unquestionably picket people and judge them right away. I even question some of the things we were starting to picket. And you see throughout my stay there, I see some inconsistencies and hypocrisies. You see in the beginning of the book, when I'm describing that I wanted to do right, I saw some good things-characteristics and intentions of the church, and I wanted to do those things. I didn't really think that I had that right to do that at the time. I didn't realize at the time that I was hurting people or that I was accusing people of things and condemning people. I thought I was being a good Christian and reaching out and showing people something. I wanted to know I was helping people see that they didn't see. _LAUREN DRAIN:_In the beginning, I wanted to know I was doing a good thing. ![]() _GLAMOUR:_What were you actually thinking as you were picketing? Walk us through a stream of thought that was going through your mind during an event. I know there's an inordinate amount of control on the members and sometimes their rules can change, so maybe that's part of it. All the time're trying to prevent people from contacting each other, prevent people from having outside influences and such. I know there's a lot of control over members, and everything is dictated and controlled in terms of what members can do. As you're doing press for your book, are you used to GLAMOUR: Since being in the eye of the media was the goal of the Westboro Baptist Church, you're used to speaking out and speaking up. She spoke to Glamour about her indoctrination, her eventual expulsion, and how she's rebuilding her life-including repairing her faith, her foundation, and saying sorry to those she's hurt. Now 27, Drain tells her side of the story about life as a member of the infamous hate group in Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church (Grand Central), out March 5. Her father and sister had just driven her to a local motel and dropped her off, told her she was never to speak to them again, and that she'd been banished from the Westboro Baptist Church-the group known for picketing funerals of fallen soldiers, homosexuals, and AIDS victims, and most recently attempting to picket those of the Sandy Hook Elementary victims-for exchanging online communication with a boy who'd been interested in learning about the church. The first thing Lauren Drain did after her family disowned her was walk to a local drugstore, buy poster board and markers, and list out her sins.
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