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This is Nate Phelps.
He is the sixth of 13 children of Fred Phelps, the deceased founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, the ultra-homophobic, hate-spewing church that pickets the funerals of US soldiers and which only has a few dozen members.
Nate Phelps fled the church in 1980 and has gone on to become one of their most outspoken critics, as well as a campaigner for gay rights.
After the US supreme court effectively legalised gay marriage in a ruling last week, Nate Phelps had a message for his family of birth:
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