@article{467400,
      recid = {467400},
      author = {Drain, Lauren. and Pulitzer, Lisa.},
      title = {Banished : surviving my years in the Westboro Baptist  Church /},
      publisher = {Grand Central Pub.,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {295 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      note = {Cover subtitle: A memoir.},
      abstract = {Lauren Drain's childhood seemed average American, but when  her liberal-minded father set out to film a documentary  about the audacious and cultish hate group, the Westboro  Baptist Church, he found himself seduced. At 14, Lauren was  moved with her family to Kansas to live in the Westboro  compound. There, Lauren found a new community offering both  a warm welcome and a complex set of rules and regulations,  including curbs on her teenage freedom and punishments  meted out unjustly. The WBC's modus operandi is its  aggressive and vitriolic campaigns against anyone and  everyone it deems immoral or sinful -- the United States  military, the Catholic Church, homosexuals, and more. Over  the next seven years, Lauren would try to assimilate their  extreme beliefs. She traveled the country as an active and  vocal picketer, spouting the church's message of hate at  public events, with shockingly offensive signs promoting  their agenda. But as she matured and began to question and  bristle against some of the church's tenets, she was  unceremoniously cast out, and permanently cut off from her  family. BANISHED is the story of one young woman's journey  into and out of a world of extremists, and of building a  positive new life out of the ashes of her old one.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/467400},
}